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Boiron, makers of great homeopathic medicines, recently sent me Children’s Coldcam to try out. I didn’t review it right away, because I actually wanted to use it and see how it worked, LOL.
The Coldcam comes in a little tube about the size of a chapstick- in fact, it is in the bag next to a Burt’s Bees chapstick, and I often mistakenly grab it when I am looking for the chap stick, LOL.
When you take the top off, you turn it to take out tiny little balls or pellets of medicine. They taste like sugar-water to me. Here is what Boiron has to say about Childrens Coldcam

Children 3 years of age and older: At the onset of cold symptoms, take 5 pellets every 20 minutes for 1 hour. Then take 5 pellets every 2 hours until symptoms are relieved. Allow the pellets to dissolve in the mouth.

Children younger than 3 years of age: Ask a doctor before use.

Active Ingredients

Allium cepa 3C HPUS		Relieves sneezing and runny nose
Apis mellifica 6C HPUS		Relieves nasal congestion
Belladonna 6C HPUS^*		Relieves colds with a sudden onset
Eupatorium perfoliatum 3C HPUS		Relieves sinus pain
Gelsemium sempervirens 6C HPUS		Relieves headaches associated with colds
Kali bichromicum 6C HPUS		Relieves nasal discharge
Nux vomica 3C HPUS		Relieves sneezing attacks
Phytolacca decandra 6C HPUS		Relieves sore throat associated with colds
Pulsatilla 6C HPUS		Relieves colds with a loss of taste and smell
*Contains less than 10-6 mg alkaloids

Inactive Ingredients

Lactose, sucrose

The letters HPUS indicate that these ingredients are officially included in the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States.

My Little Man has been out with a cold, strep, ear infection, croup, pinkeye, flu, etc pretty much non-stop this year- poor kid really has not had a chance to recover before he gets nailed again!
Kamikaze is always physically healthy as a horse, we are lucky in that respect with her.
It came with two tubes, so one kid each.
I really didn’t notice any difference. Little keeps getting sick, and he didn’t seem to get better any faster. Kamikaze had her cold for about 3 days- which is pretty par for the course for her. I don’t know if they worked. I didn’t notice anything. I’m sorry that I don’t have more to say on this subject- but I can’t tell you something that I didn’t actually experience.
One thing- Little Man and Kamikaze, who both take medicine well, both thought that these little pellets/balls of medicine were “fun”, and they liked when I turned them out of the tube for them. We went through the tubes kind of quickly- not because we were OD-ing the kids, LOL, but because the directions told us to give them 5 pellets every 2 hours. Seems crazy, but they are really tiny, and designed to dissolve on the tongue- so it’s not really as much as it sounds like.
However, the kids had no issues eating them. So, if your kids are difficult medicine-takers, this may be one to try out.
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