This is part two of a three part series on how to keep your kids healthy during the toughest season of all…cold and flu. You know the season. It’s squished between back-to-school and Christmas and it causes havoc from coast-to-coast.
I’ve compiled a list of possible solutions for you.
Solution #1: Pull your children out of daycare and public school and home school (a la Duggars)
Problem: Um, you have to TEACH them now. Remember algebra? Long division? Protractors? That’s all on you.
Solution #2: Have a plastic bubble made and put your child in it.
Problem: Your kids may have a hard time making friends. Oh and your neighbors will never talk to you again.
Solution #3: Give your kids safe homeopathic meds a few times a day.
Problem: N/A
Does it feel like I stacked the deck a bit there?
The point is that I’m a fan of Boiron products and am writing this on their behalf because I use their stuff on my kids. Including Stodal which is a syrupy medicine I give regularly to both Eva and Sidney when they’ve got the coughs.
I couldn’t give it to Eva until she turned one because there’s honey in there (botulism and all of that), but now both of them take it and actually (sigh) ask me for it (too much if you ask me).
Don’t even bother going to the pharmacy and shopping around for non-homeopathic cough medicine for your kids if they are under six. It’ll be in vain. The government has pretty much written off most over-the-counter cough medicines as ineffective. That’s why I stick with a completely natural syrup that can’t hurt my kids in any way. Now they aren’t addicts or anything (fingers crossed) because I do follow all of the instructions. But I’ll tell you both me and my husband use Stodal as well. Even though we should be using the grown-up version sometimes we get cheap and lazy and use whatever is in the cupboard. Well guess what…it works on us too!
Try it and tell me what you think. You can find it at Shoppers Drug Marts and Loblaw stores.
See you next time when we dissect the most popular drug…I mean um, medicine, in our house. It starts with an ‘o’ and has about a billion syllables. Stay tuned!
Tracy
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