Parents are often disappointed or even a little bit upset when I tell them there’s no medicine to help their coughing, sneezing, drippy-nosed children feel better. There’s nothing that works, I say, ...

Habit cough as well as tic cough also may be present in children. Inhalation pneumonitis from smoke (tobacco, fire) and hydrofluorocarbons (kerosene, gasoline) are not uncommon. Heritable disorders ...

A child's cough can be frightening for parents—and the first thing that comes to mind is reaching for a cough syrup. What they do not know, however, is that syrups are not a solution and can cause ...

Vaccination is the best protection. Pertussis or ‘whooping cough’ is a highly contagious, and potentially very dangerous disease that is passed through communities via coughing and sneezing. The ...

Parents and providers face a dilemma in wanting to help children with cough but also recognizing that over-the-counter medications have limited clinically proven benefit and real safety concerns when ...

Rose Cairns receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC, Investigator Grant). She is also the recipient of an untied educational grant from Reckitt to fund a PhD ...

Doctors say chronic cough in children can sometimes be linked to everyday environmental irritants rather than underlying illness. (Image: Pexels) A child's persistent cough was caused by exposure to ...

Habit cough virtually always has an organic origin. The child will have had a cough from an asthma exacerbation, pneumonia, or a common cold. He or she becomes stuck in a cycle of cough, irritation, ...