This week, Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Sara Ritchie about how to care for your child’s cold and cough. Dr. Ritchie is an ...

Cough and congestion are common for many children this time of year, signaling any number of illnesses. For parents, it’s ...

It sounds like barking in the middle of the night — the kind that alarms many parents — but it is most likely stridor. What ...

Rose Cairns receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC, Investigator Grant). She is also the recipient of an untied educational grant from Reckitt to fund a PhD ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Most cases are benign and resolve spontaneously. The most common causes are post-infectious, asthma or ...

Two children’s cough syrups are being recalled because of a defect that could cause overdosing. GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare is voluntarily recalling two lots of Children's Robitussin® Honey ...

Habit cough as well as tic cough also may be present in children. Inhalation pneumonitis from smoke (tobacco, fire) and hydrofluorocarbons (kerosene, gasoline) are not uncommon. Heritable disorders ...

What is an effective and safe natural cough medicine for children? Choosing cough medicine for children should not be done carelessly, because not all types of cough medicine sold on the market are ...

It started with what seemed like a run-of-the-mill cold. My three-year-old had a cough that wouldn’t go away, a fever that barely counted as one, and he stopped sleeping through the night. As a ...

Parents and providers face a dilemma in wanting to help children with cough but also recognizing that over-the-counter medications have limited clinically proven benefit and real safety concerns when ...

Some people continue coughing after they recover from a common respiratory infection. Doctors explain why a cough can last ...

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