Dr. Chheda – With cold and flu season upon us, your child might start coughing quite a bit. I will tell you that Mucinex has done a great marketing job at saying that they can get rid of your cough. I will tell you that I do not like Mucinex. What Mucinex does is it thins out the mucus and allows you to cough up the mucus. Now kids below the age of 8 years can’t really hack up loogies. They can’t cough up the mucus in the first place. So with Mucinex, now they have double the amount of mucus. And mucus is thinner, they have more mucus now. The mucus is just going up and down and up and down, and they actually cough more. All my patients who come in on Mucinex never get better. So don’t buy it for your kids. Now, if you or an older child can hack up loogies, Mucinex is fine. That’s where it works. But if your child can’t hack up loogies to begin with, don’t buy it. Transcriptions from AI and may not be 100% accurate