Comparative effect of mixture of ginger and honey with dextromethorphan in dry cough in children

Deepali L. Jaybhaye; Shruti Chandra; Sukhmeen Johar; Abhijit S. Nagre

doi:10.18203/2319-2003.ijbcp20211651

Authors

Deepali L. Jaybhaye Department of Pharmacology, MGM Medical College, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India
Shruti Chandra Department of Pharmacology, MGM Medical College, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India
Sukhmeen Johar Department of Pharmacology, MGM Medical College, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India
Abhijit S. Nagre MBBS student, Topiwala National Medical College, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18203/2319-2003.ijbcp20211651

Keywords:

Dry cough, Honey and ginger, Dextromethorphan

Abstract

Background: Cough is protective reflex caused by obstruction or irritation of airway. Many medication available for the treatment of dry cough. But it causes sedation and drowsiness in children. Considering the adverse effects produce by the medication, we consider this study as the ginger and honey is used in Indian family, and in Ayurveda ginger and honey is used for treatment of dry and productive cough.

Methods: We include the patients who attended the pediatric OPD complaining dry cough. We design the questionnaire and for the measuring the severity of dry cough. We divide the patient into four groups received standard treatment and ginger and honey mixture. We compared the end result with standard treatment statistically by using unpaired student “t” test was used along with two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) test.

Results: We include 100 patient in this study. We got amazing result of this study ginger and honey required less time for recovery and also sedation and drowsiness not occurred in the ginger and honey group as compared to dextromethorphan (p value ˂0.005).

Conclusions: After seeing above encouraging result, and along with advantage of natural product with no adverse we can advise the honey and ginger therapy for treatment of dry cough.

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