Common Cold – Medication

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There are no specific prescription medications I can think of for the common cold. There are anti-histamines that are prescription if someone has allergies and the cold is making it worse, or they have asthma and we need to give them their asthma medications, but there really is no prescription drug I can think of, even for adults. Over the counter medications that would help older children, let’s say over the age of six years, and adults, are guaifenesin, dextromethorphan, they sooth the cough, lessen the cough, things with anti-histamine in them may help dry up the secretions in the nose, and you have less coughing from a post-nasal drip. Those kinds of things, pseudoephedrine to help decongest the congestion, that might help.