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Health Advice - Children's Illnesses - Sore Throats

Treating Children's ilnneses - advice from Steyning Health Centre

As with coughs and colds, the majority of sore throats are caused by a virus, and therefore antibiotics will not help.

To alleviate the pain give your children Paracetamol or Cocodamol at the recommended doses and time intervals. Children over the age of twelve will find gargling with soluble Aspirin helpful, but children under 12 must not be given Aspirin.

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