N.A.C. (N-Acetyl-Cystein), in a nebulized form, can be obtained with or without a doctor's prescription. Use with a good quality nebulizer. If you don'thave access to a nebulizer, you can also try the oral form, by reducing dosage by perhaps 1/4 for a 5 year old (perhaps 100mg or so, most capsules contain 500 or 600mg each by default). NAC is known to be extremely helpful to the lungs. I forget the exact mechanism, but I believe it was thought to break up mucous. In any case, it supposedly works very well, asthmatics used to use it until the brochodialotors came around and they figured that asthma was basically "brocho-contriction", rather than mucous build-up. Also, give her extra high dose of vitamin C (perhaps 1 or 2 grams twice a day), selenium (perhaps 50 micrograms once a day, as "selenomethionine" or "monomethionine", NOT "selenite" version), and vitamin E (perhaps 50-100 IU of "natural" E, as "d-alpha" tocopherol, NOT dl-alpha, once a day). I'm mentioning these particular vitamins, because of this... http://www.asthmaworld.org/SeGluPer.htm If that wasn;t enough, high doses of GSE (grapefruit seed extract, NOT "grape" seed) has helped my wife about 3 times over bronchitis that followed colds in about 3 days. She had to take about 2-3 capsules (they held about 37 drops each) of liquid a day to do it. For a child, I suspect 20 might be an equivalent. You could divide that up into 2 doses a day, at 10 drops, by just mixing it with a glass of orange juice. I would suggest trying only 1 of these 3 ideas at a time. If the child were older, I might be more bold. -Ken Bagwell
debbie cozens <[email protected]> wrote: Hi , i do hope that someone can give me some good advice...my daughter age 5 has got a very bad chesty cough..so chesty that she wants to get sick everytime she coughs...i give her 5ml of cs in the morning and at lunch time..not as night as i read the insomnia post on taking cs at night...what else can i do for her????any other natural remedies that any of you know of? shes drinking honey and lemon in warm water...i just dont want to take her to the doc but i think its getting worse,,.. HELP Debbie Debbie Cozens http://stores.ebay.co.uk/S-h-i-r-e-s-t-o-r-m Equine products at affordable prices --------------------------------- Win a BlackBerry device from O2 with Yahoo!. Enter now. --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Use Photomail to share photos without annoying attachments.
