Natural/Home Remedies Series

Welcome to our new and exciting series -all about home/natural remedies!  This page is here to work as a sort of table of contents.  This series will incorporate things such as “mom remedies”, herbs, vitamins, acupuncture, etc. Just a few notes on natural/home remedies… 1.  Natural or home remedies often have quite a bit of anecdotal [...]

Honey for Dry Cough in Kids

There was a small study done recently that compared dextromethorphan to honey.  Dextromethorphan (Delsym, Robitussin DM) is the typical OTC drug used to treat dry cough.  The study had kids from 2 to 18 years old with upper respiratory tract infections and nighttime cough.  There were three branches in th study -no treatment, honey or dextromethorphan.  [...]