Honey a Better Cough Medicine for Kids than Dextromethorphan
Recently, many have raised questions about the efficacy and safety of common cough medicines for children, many of which include the ingredient dextromethorphan.
But now an easy substitute seems to have been found: honey. Specifically buckwheat honey, which a new study has found to be more significantly more effective than dextromethorphan in curing coughs in young children. The study examined and compared the effects of dextromethorphan, honey and no treatment at all in 105 children. Honey was more effective than no treatment, whereas dextromethorphan was not.
The effective dosages of honey were: half a teaspoon for children aged two to five, a full teaspoon for those aged six to eleven and two teaspoons for the twelve to eighteen age group.
