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Cough Bottle for 3 year old

  • 08-04-2017 6:55am
    #1
    tempnam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 491 ✭✭


    I'm wondering if you can give cough bottle to a3 year old. She's picked up a cough from play school. She's not coughing up anything, but it also doesn't sound completely dry.

    It's quite annoying (for her and us). We got her glycerine honey & lemon to sooth her throat but not sure if it's OK to give cough bottle to young kids. I thought it was but my wife is saying she read somewhere that it's recommended not to give it to young kids.....

    Bit confused!


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  • #2
    delly
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 7,754 Mod ✭✭✭✭delly


    tempnam wrote: »
    I'm wondering if you can give cough bottle to a3 year old. She's picked up a cough from play school. She's not coughing up anything, but it also doesn't sound completely dry.

    It's quite annoying (for her and us). We got her glycerine honey & lemon to sooth her throat but not sure if it's OK to give cough bottle to young kids. I thought it was but my wife is saying she read somewhere that it's recommended not to give it to young kids.....

    Bit confused!

    If I recall correctly, they changed the age for cough medicine 4 or 5 years ago, based on pharmaceutical guidelines. I don't remember what the old starting age for it used to be, assume 3 or 4, but overnight it went to 6. This meant the Benylin cough mix we had been using, was suddenly not to be used even though the formula was the same.


  • #3
    jlm29
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    Check the age on exputex in your chemist. I think it's younger than a lot of others, but I can't recall exactly!


  • #4
    delly
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 7,754 Mod ✭✭✭✭delly


    Exputex starts at 2, but is very different to a cough bottle. It'll break down mucas that may assist in reduced coughing, but is not an answer to a persistent cough. I'd recommend speaking to your pharmacist for advice, but coughs like this will feature a bit over the years and sometimes can be unresponsive to medicine, so just have to run their course.


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