A consultant Paediatrician at the Federal Teaching Hospital, Katsina, Dr. Abdurrazzaq Alege, has said children under the age of five should not be given over-the-counter cough syrups.
Alege said there was usually no need to treat a child’s cough with cough syrups as coughing helps a child remove mucous, infections, and irritants from their respiratory tracts.
However, he said, cough syrups can be given to a child under the supervision of a medical doctor if the child is experiencing distress or disturbed sleep. “For children, we don’t want anything to suppress the cough. We understand that parents worry more of the cough than the catarrh or the fever but the truth is that the cough is helping the child to manage the infection.
“For children above five years, to an extent, we allow cough syrups. Why we don’t allow cough syrups for children under five is that we realise that most of the contents of the cough syrups are not usually one but a mixture and at that age, the body is not able to metabolise most of these mixtures. Most times, it could be toxic to the body system.
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