The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is evaluating the safety of over-the-counter cold and cough medications in older children.
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Over-the-counter cold and cough medications in older children and adults.
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Older children and adults who have whooping cough often appear to have a bad cold or persistent cough that can be so severe that it causes vomiting.
The good stuff--dryish, refined, compulsively drinkable--has nothing to do with cold duck or cough-medicine-y, five bucks a pop, small "c" "champagne": Different grapes, different process, a whole different mind-set.
Whooping cough, or pertussis, may look like just like a cold or a persistent cough in adults.
So if you have a cold, flu, cough, bronchitis, those are all viral infections and need antivirals.
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"Any hot, sweet, tasty remedy will provide good relief from common cold symptoms, especially cough and sore throat, " he says.
We also delivered wheelchairs, medical cots and 1, 400 pounds of medical aid -- everything from cough and cold medicines to first aid supplies.
An earlier University of Michigan poll from 2011 found 61% of parents with children 2 and younger had given them cough and cold medications.
They stopped selling tobacco products in 1996, and were the first national retailer to voluntarily decide to place all cough, cold and allergy products containing Pseudoephedrine (PSE) behind the pharmacy counter (which is good for mankind but a pain for me since I am an allergy sufferer, but I support it of course).
Dr Amber Young, consultant paediatric anaesthetist at the South West Paediatric Burns Centre at Frenchay Hospital in Bristol and clinical adviser to the project said when a child with a small burn develops a high temperature there is no easy way of knowing if the child has a serious bacterial infection, or simply a cough or cold.
Right now, people think if they have a cough or a cold, they're going to die.
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The nasal drainage associated with colds can hasten dehydration, and some over-the-counter cold remedies containing antihistamines (many cough syrups, for instance) can dry you out further, Dr. Rosenbaum points out.
As with the cold and flu, however, the cough can linger for much longer.
If a cough lasts after your other cold symptoms have resolved, see your doctor.
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About 43 percent of the volunteers had signs of infection plus cold symptoms, such as a stuffy nose, cough, and sore throat.
Initial symptoms are very similar to a cold, but a week or two later, a violent cough develops.
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