No cough medicine's for under 6's - Really????

[MadameJ]

Poor 16 month old DD is really struggling with this horrible lurgy i.e cough and cold. The cough is only really a problem at night and it is awful, she hasn't actually slept for any decent period for 4 nights now and she is so tired because of this

The GP said she is not chesty and the pharmacist has said that she is too young for actual medicine and sold us various syrups which when I looked all actually have the same ingrediant (glycirine).

I have raised her head in her cot and I am using Karvol etc, anything else that you can suggest - WE NEED MORE SLEEP!!!!!

Honey and lemon? She's older than 1 so honey is ok now.

Cough syrups don't work anyway. Thumbwitch is right, try honey and lemon :)

:)

Some baby Vicks on the soles of her feet may help with the cough.

Thanks I will give that a try x

Thats interesting LetsKatewin, I will also try that x

Can I suggest as humidifier, it works wonders in our house, dd currently has a bad chest infection but she is sleeping through the night, with the humidifier and her cot at quite an angle.

How about some herbal tea? Lemon and ginger with some honey, the ginger really helps clear the sinuses. Benilyn do a children's cough syrup (apple flavored) suitable from three months. Karvel plug ins help a bit too and sterimar sterile seawater nasal spray. :)

Thanks everyone, I have given her the honey and lemon (which she loved!!) and raised her bed more. She is dosed with Karvol both on her chest and feet so we will have to wait and see. I will get some herbal tea tomorrow and also steal borrow the humidifier from my Dad's house.
Thanks again x

Hope she feels Better soon !!! :)

2nd the humidifier and do you have any Olbas oil? I used to put some in one of those oil burners with the water bowl on top.