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5 Cough Herbs That Are Great For Kids

My oldest kid is a pneumonia factory. Seriously. Every time he gets a cold, he tries to dial it up to 11. The first year he got pneumonia he was only 18 months old, and I didn't know what I was doing. By the time I figured out that he was bad sick, it was an antibiotics-for-breathing type of sick. That's when I started learning about herbs for kids, because the American Academy of Pediatrics specifically says   "Demonstration of the efficacy of antitussive preparations in children is lacking, and these medications may be potentially harmful. Decongestant (sympathomimetic) components of these mixtures administered to children have been associated with irritability, restlessness, lethargy, hallucination, hypertension, and dystonic reactions.The clearance and metabolism of the components of cough mixtures may...