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Can The Cold Medicine Keep The Child Awake?

My child is 7 yrs old and has had a bad cough/cold. he has asthmatic tendencies and his doctor prescribed hyd polst-chlor po l for his cough. he is not coughing, but had his meds 3 hrs ago at his bedtime and is just now about to fall asleep. can this be keeping him awake
posted on Fri, 14 Mar 2014
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Thanks for the query.
On the contrary cold medicine generally causes sedation.
It might be due to uneasiness due to cold, cough , he is awake.
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Can The Cold Medicine Keep The Child Awake?

Thanks for the query. On the contrary cold medicine generally causes sedation. It might be due to uneasiness due to cold, cough , he is awake. Hope i helped you.