Vitamin C tablets or regular hand-washing?
And is echinacea a better cold treatment than a tall glass of water?
Your answer matters.
More than half of parents may be using non-evidence–based methods of helping prevent or treat their children’s colds, a new survey from the University of Michigan suggests.
Those methods included vitamin C supplements, echinacea, supplements marketed as “immune system boosters,” and zinc, among others, according to the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health shows.
What Parents Are Doing Right
Colds are viruses, so the main way to prevent them is to prevent kids from coming into direct contact with the virus.
That means staying away from mucus droplets spread through the air from someone coughing or sneezing, or from playing with toys, or touching door handles, countertops, and other objects that may have the cold virus on them.
The Mott poll reports 99 percent of parents polled said that encouraging good hygiene was an important way to help prevent their children from catching a cold.
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