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SLEEP => Sleeping For Toddlers => Topic started by: kohnheads on June 17, 2008, 21:24:17 pm

Title: Honey for cough before nap and bedtime?
Post by: kohnheads on June 17, 2008, 21:24:17 pm

Just wondering if anyone has any good advice for cough relief while sleeping?  My one-year-old wakes himself up from this nasty cough he has.  I've heard after a year you can give them a little spoonful of honey?  Anyone tried this or anything else that worked?

Lindsay

Title: Re: Honey for cough before nap and bedtime?
Post by: Mum to Ella Rose on June 17, 2008, 21:29:43 pm

I haven't used it that young but I use it with my 3 1/2 year old. I heard somewhere along the line manuka honey is especially healing so I give her teaspoons of it for her reflux and when she has a cold. There was just a study done too recently that said honey is as effective, if not more, than cough medicine so...

Title: Re: Honey for cough before nap and bedtime?
Post by: Layla on June 18, 2008, 00:14:38 am

I give a teaspoon of honey (we use Manuka honey too) with my girls.... they are both sick at the moment. I mix it with milk or just water.

Title: Re: Honey for cough before nap and bedtime?
Post by: kohnheads on June 18, 2008, 00:36:02 am

Great - I'll try it!  Thanks!

Title: Re: Honey for cough before nap and bedtime?
Post by: Samuel's mum on June 18, 2008, 04:52:02 am

But won't they then be sleeping with sugar on their teeth?

Title: Re: Honey for cough before nap and bedtime?
Post by: Lissybits on June 18, 2008, 11:46:09 am

Most med has sugar though and we don't make LOs clean their teeth after giving med ;)

If it meant they(and me) got a better night's sleep, it wouldn't bother me once in a while!

Haven't you ever gone to bed without cleaning your teeth?! I was trying to think of the last time I did......it must have been before DS and in a drunken stupor ;D ;D

Lis
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