Combating troublesome productive cough in children

Learning objectives

You will learn:

• To ensure that a diagnosis and the causes of persistent and recurrent cough in children between the ages of 2-4 years is carefully assessed prior to the use of cough-alleviating medications
• To evaluate the clinical evidence for the use of ivy leaf extracts as herbal preparations with ‘well-established use’ status in children with productive cough
• To assess the safety of these preparations in younger children using available evidence from the scientific literature and expert assessment of these data.