2 Year Old Cough Medicine - Just Stay Away

I'm very disappointed in modern science and technology today.  We are now living in the second decade of the Twenty First Centry.  You would think that we would be able to make a medicine that would stop a toddler from coughing.  But no,  the FDA recommends that you don't give any type of cough medicine to any toddler or infant below the age of 4.  Even with that recommendation, there are even more pediatricians and doctors that recommend not giving any cough or cold medicine to anyone younger than 6.  What is a parent to do?  When your children are suffering from a cold or the flu, you suffer with the fact that there isn't much you can do without doing some kind of harm to your child.  What parent wants to make that choice? Not Me.  That's why I started researching natural home remedies to stop a child's coughing, especially at night.

Okay, so you child has a cough and is keeping you up all night.  We know you can't use cough medicine, but what about a home remedy?  I found a few that have been working for our family.  One of the first ones i read about on the internet was to use honey in some warm tea.  We gave that a shot a few months ago when our son was not able to sleep because of his cough.  He was becoming a monster because he couldn't get any relief from his cough so he wasn't getting any sleep.  Any parent knows how grumpy a child can get when they don't get sleep.  So we made some tea using some boiling water and put some honey in there, that's what they say to do.  Now that the tea was so hot it took over a half an hour before we could even think of giving it to him.  Then when it was time for him to drink it he refused.  You think we were trying to give kryptonite to superman, but with a lot of fighting we got him to drink the honey laced tea.  To our surprise he stopped coughing.  To bad that it only lasted for 15 minutes.  What a waste.

So after some more searching I found a method that actually stops toddler coughing at night.  This uses the principals of Chinese acupuncture to naturally use the body to help heal it self.  It is pretty logical that this would work.  It has to be that the parts of the brain that control the cough reflex are somehow hooked up or canceled out by the nerve endings in the feet.  The heat that is created must do something to cancel out the cough reflex.  I really don't know why or how this works, and I really don't care because even the so called experts can't explain why this works, but it does.  It works better than any other coughing home remedy my family as tried in the last 10 years.  With so many kids we have tried a lot of things with little to no success.  Give this a try and let me know how it works for you.  My family thinks this a miracle because we are able to sleep at night and are kids are able to sleep also because the principles of Chinese acupuncture work.  Seriously give this natural method a try.