If you go the clinic or hospital cz of coughing, doctor usually will give you cough syrup or scientifically called linctus; a medicinal drug that used as an attempt to treat coughing. That’s what happens to me and I believe to most of people. For me, it’s not really effective medicine and it does have side effect, cause the taker to feel sleepy depending on the amount of the liquid taken.
Recently, a research by an American scientist found that taking a spoon of honey for cough treatment is more effective than taking cough syrup. Based on experience, I strongly agree wt the finding. I am kinda of person who have cough regularly especially when the temperature is pretty cold. Normally, I just buy the syrup or get it from clinic/hospital but after awhile, I realized that taking syrup doesn’t help me anymore. I drink more syrup and end up sleep more than I should have. Few people suggested me to drink hot milk mixed with few spoons of honey. I gave it a shot and it worked quite well. I can feel that I cough less than I used to.
However, the research suggests that this prescription is not suitable for children below 1 year old because honey may contain bacteria that can cause food poisoning or worst, can cause dead. Besides that, if you cough with a lot of sputum, do not use honey for treatment and as rule of thumb, if you cough for months, please go and see doctor for detailed examination cz coughing for a long time is one of tuberculosis symptoms.
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