One tablespoon of honey has been known to help relieve cough and children at night helps them sleep better, as published in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, December 2007 edition.
Honey is used around the world as a traditional medicine for coughs, and is an alternative safe and effective as cough medicine.
There are several reasons honey can cure cough: the quality of the sweet syrup of honey throat, while the elements of antioxidants of honey is also a cough suppressant factor. In addition, honey has antimicrobial effects.
But it should be noted also, that honey is not recommended for infants under one year, because of rare but serious risks that can cause a type of botulism food poisoning. But for children older, are generally quite safe to use honey. Regarding its use in accordance with the dose of cough medicine usual recommendations:
* 2-5 years: Â ½ teaspoon,
* 6-11 years: 1 teaspoon,
* 12 years and over: 2 teaspoons.
If it can provide benefits, why not for the tried. Regarding efficacy and effective or not, wallahualam.
Sunday, October 4, 2009
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