Chicken Soup To The Rescue Again

Never thought I'd get such good advice from the Wall Street Journal when it comes to health but on Oct. 2 the headline read Cough Drugs For Kids Spark Concern: ... Some Doctors Advise Traditional Treatments. And one of the treatments was the ever popular, generations- strong remedy -- Chicken Soup!

Other home remedies include humidifiers, steam baths, saline drops in the nose and hydrating fluids.

The serious part of all of this is the harmful and even fatal effect of some of the ingredients in cough syrup especially for children under 2 years of age. The article quoted FDA figures of 54 deaths in children related to decongestants containing pseudoephedrine, phenylephrine and ephedrine from 1969 to 2006 and 69 deaths linked to antihistamines with diphenhydramine, brompheniramine and chlorpheniramine. Most of these deaths were in children under the age of 2.