Reference no: EM132351270

Is honey a cough remedy? Refer to the Archives of Pediatric Adolescent Medicine (Dec. 2007) a study of honey as remedy for coughing, Exercise. The coughing improvement scores for the patients in the over the counter cough medicine dosage (DM) group, honey dosage group, and control group are reproduced in the accompanying table. A sample of 105 children who were sick with an upper respiratory tract infection and their parents participated in the study. On the first night, the parents rated their children cough systems on a scale from 0 (no problem) to 6 (extremely severe) in five different areas. The total symptoms score (ranging from 0 to 30 points) was the variable of interest for the 105 patients. On the second night, the parents were instructed to give their sick children a dosage of liquid "medicine" prior to bedtime. Unknown to the parents, some were given a dosage of DM- over the counter cough medicine, while others were given a similar dose of honey. The third group (control group) did not take any medicine at all.

Honey 12 11 15 11 10 13 10 4 15 16 9 14 10 6 10 8 11 12 12 8 12 9 11 15 10 15 9 13 8 12 10 8 9 5 1

DM 4 6 9 4 7 7 7 9 12 10 11 6 3 4 9 12 7 6 8 12 12 4 12 13 7 10 13 9 4 4 10 15 9

Control 5 8 6 1 0 8 12 8 7 7 1 6 7 7 12 7 9 7 9 5 11 9 5 6 8 8 6 7 10 9 4 8 7 3 1 4 3