Research · Systematic review
Honey for acute cough in children
What it found
Reduced nighttime cough and improved sleep vs no treatment; likely better than diphenhydramine.
- Design
- Systematic review
- Year
- 2018
- Sample size
- 899
- Population
- children with acute cough
- Intervention
- honey
- Outcome
- cough severity / sleep
- Journal
- Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Citation last checked 2026-06-21.