Treat chronic coughs naturally

Coughing, sneezing, runny noses, colds and other lung infections are very common in the transition seasons are difficult to guess at the moment. To fight it, a lot of people swallowing pills and syrups, which are believed to cure the problem of the nose, throat, relieve pain, reduce cough and improve sleep quality.

However, further evidence indicates that drugs are not always effective. Worse, many drugs have side effects that are not good, even dangerous, especially for small children.

That's why many doctors now recommend an ancient recipe for their coughing patients, namely honey.

"Honey has been used for hundreds of years as traditional medicine in various places in the world. We thought, would be very reasonable to test" says Ian Paul, a pediatrician at the Hospital of Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, USA.

A stubborn cough

Paul is motivated to try honey, because today, treating cough in children has become a common problem. Coughing is a great way to cleanse the body of the irritated airways and help breathing.

However, a cough that is too much, can cause irritation to the lungs and throat are more severe. Cleaning is also disrupt sleep, which is needed in the healing process. To alleviate the suffering of their children, parents often give cough medicines in syrup form.

In 1997, the American Academy of Pediatricians warned that codeine and dextromethorphan (DM), two of the four common ingredient in cough medicine, not heal the pain suffered by children. Codeine and DM only works to block the messages from the brain to the body's cough.

Drugs that do not work, play bad for your health. Medicine for coughs and colds can also cause serious side effects, including drowsiness, hyperactivity, hallucinations, dizziness, vomiting, palpitations and others. Hundreds of children ended up in hospital each year. Some of them even died after accidentally drinking too much cough medicine.