Treatment
The treatment of a cough in children is based on the underlying cause with the use of cough medicine supported by little evidence and thus not recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
A trial of antibiotics or inhaled corticosteroids may be tried in children with a chronic cough in an attempt to treat protracted bacterial bronchitis or asthma respectively.
Honey can be considered as a symptomatic relief treatment. In a 2012, A Double-blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Study, parents significantly rated honey products ("treatment" was either eucalyptus, citrus, and labiatae) higher than the silan date extract (placebo) for symptomatic relief of their children’s nocturnal cough and sleep difficulty due to upper respiratory tract infections. The measured outcomes were the nocturnal cough, child sleep, and parental sleep. Parents were instructed to administer 10 g of their child’s treatment product within 30 minutes of the child going to sleep. The parents were instructed that the preparation could be given undiluted or together with a noncaffeinated beverage.
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