There are steps you can take to protect your family and stay healthy during cold season, such as encouraging your children to wash their hands often and making sure they get plenty of rest.

But if you notice that your child is starting to show some flu-like symptoms, consider Children’s Coldcalm Pellets from Boiron.

The Safe Choice

When children are sick, parents worry. They want nothing more than to see their child happy and healthy again. When choosing a medicine, parents seek a product that’s safe, effective and reliable. Children’s Coldcalm Pellets can be the perfect match if the child has cold symptoms.

Children’s Coldcalm does not contain any of the ingredients under question for use in youngsters. In fact, like other homeopathic medicines, its ingredients are micro-doses of natural ingredients, there are no reported side effects such as making children jittery or drowsy, and it does not interact with other medications, herbs or supplements.

A Solution You Both Feel Good About

Unlike conventional medications that rely on decongestants or antihistamines to mask full blown symptoms, Children’s Coldcalm is designed to target specific symptoms of each stage of the cold—even early symptoms like a minor sore throat.

The sooner cold symptoms are treated, the better chance there is to lessen the duration and/or severity of symptoms so kids to get back to being a kid quicker—and you can get back to what you need to do.

Tastes Great!

In addition to the benefits listed above, the medicine tastes great, making it easy to give to your child!

Parents can quickly and easily find this over-the-counter medicine in the children’s aisle along with Children’s Chestal for coughs and new Children’s Oscillococcinum for flu-like symptoms.

So, consider Children’s Coldcalm when cold symptoms emerge and take comfort in knowing that the medicine is safe, reliable and easy to find.

The media tells us a lot about what celebrities are wearing and what they’re doing, but what do celebrities do when they get sick? Many of them turn to homeopathic medicines such as those from Boiron. Below are a few opinions about these products from some familiar names.

• I like to take Oscillo first thing when I know something is coming on because I know it’s going to knock it out.
  – Kate Flannery, The Office

‘Are You Taking Your Oscillo?’

• When I feel something coming on, [Oscillococcinum’s] my go-to. My mom always calls me asking, “Are you taking your Oscillo?”
  – Jackson Hurst, Drop Dead Diva

• I woke up sick on my wedding day. My mother-in-law told me to take Oscillo and I was fine! That was years ago and the first time I took it. I’ve been using it ever since. It’s great!
  – James Bobin, Flight of the Conchords

‘I Took It This Morning’

• When I feel something come on, that’s when I take [Oscillo]. I just bought it and took it this morning!
  – Carrie Preston, True Blood

• I’ve seen this product [Oscillo] on every set I’ve been on.
  – Katrina Bowden, 30 Rock

• I survive on this stuff [Oscillo].
  – Michelle Forbes, True Blood

‘We All Take It’

• On a set, when everyone was sick with the flu, I took Oscillo. I recommend Oscillo to my mom and my family. We all take it.
  – Kevin Dillon, Entourage

• I highly endorse Oscillo. On the set, it is like a Petri dish, there are so many bugs. When one person has the flu, everyone gets sick, so we take Oscillo all the time.
  – Masi Oka, Heroes

The Oscillococcinum these celebrities are so excited about is also available in a version for children, called Children’s Oscillococcinum. Other Boiron cold season products for children include Children’s Coldcalm Pellets and Children’s Chestal. All of these medicines can be purchased at chain drug stores, general-merchandising stores and supermarkets, as well as at natural-product stores.

Give these products a try and experience the benefits these celebrities are raving about!

Are you interested in trying one of Boiron’s medicines for children: Children’s Oscillococcinum for flu-like symptoms, Children’s Coldcalm Pellets for cold relief or Children’s Chestal for coughs? Or maybe you’ve tried one or more of these products already and wish to buy them again. Either way, we have a great offer we’re sure you’ll like.

Boiron is offering a $1 off coupon on any one of the three medicines mentioned above. The coupon can be found on Boiron’s Web site on each product’s page. Simply download it, print it out and bring it to the store when you make your purchase. It doesn’t get much easier than that!

Give It a Try

Here are a few reasons to take advantage of this offer, especially now as the cold and flu season gets under way:

Homeopathic medicines are one of the safest choices for self-treatment. These medicines

• do not contain any of the ingredients under question for use in children (such as antihistamines, decongestants and cough suppressants)
• have no known side effects
• don’t interact with other medication
• don’t mask symptoms (allowing doctors and patients to easily detect and respond to symptoms of serious illnesses should they arise)
• have no risk of overdose
• contain active ingredients that are micro-doses of natural ingredients

Just In Time for Flu Season

Children’s Oscillococcinum comes to the market following 65 years of families worldwide relying on Oscillococcinum to safely relieve flu-like symptoms. Children’s Oscillococcinum helps reduce the duration and severity of these symptoms.

Winter is on its way and so is cold season. Children’s Coldcalm Pellets help relieve cold symptoms, including sneezing, runny nose, nasal congestion, sinus pain, headaches and sore throats associated with colds.

Is your child up at night coughing? Children’s Chestal helps ease all types of coughs, including a dry cough, a cough associated with a tickling in the throat, a nighttime hacking cough and more.

Easy to Find, Safe to Use

All of Boiron’s products are regulated as drugs by the FDA¹ and are clearly labeled for specific indications, making directions easy for parents to understand.

Not only that, parents can quickly and affordably pick up these over-the-counter medicines without a prescription in the children’s aisle or in the cough, cold and flu section of health food stores and independent pharmacies nationwide.

What Are You Waiting For?
Check out Boiron’s Web site for more information on these medicines, print out the coupon and head to your local pharmacy or grocery store to receive instant savings and a great product!

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One of the great benefits of homeopathic medicines is convenience. If you need help fast for the unexpected or just trying to curtail early symptoms from progressing, you can easily find homeopathic medicines on the shelves of a variety of types of stores nationwide. Because they are regulated as an over-the-counter drug, you’ll find them at chain drug stores, general merchandising and supermarkets as well as natural product stores. The labels tell you exactly what they’re for and how to use them so it’s easy to pick up what you need and begin.

Purchasing Made Easy for Parents

Medicines such as Children’s Oscillococcinum for flu-like symptoms, Children’s Coldcalm Pellets for multi-symptom cold relief and Children’s Chestal for coughs can be found in the children’s aisle or in the cough, cold and flu section of these stores.

Parents can take comfort in being able to purchase these medicines quickly and affordably when they need them, giving them less to worry about when they have a sick child on their hands.

Online and Mail Order Options

If driving to a store isn’t possible, or if you simply prefer the convenience of ordering products from home, consider getting these medicines delivered right to your doorstep.

These products can be purchased through the Web at online-only retailers.  Click here to view Boiron’s list of online-only retailers.

Mail-order delivery is another option, with pharmacies located nationwide offering this service. See Boiron’s full mail-order retailer list.

We Make It Easy!

All of Boiron’s products are clearly labeled for specific indications, making directions easy to understand. Packaging includes the specific diseases, ailments or symptoms for which the product is to be used, the concentration of substances contained in the product, the recommended dosage and the mode of application.

These clear specifications make choices easier for consumers and guidance easier for retailers.

Several Benefits

Not only are Boiron’s products easy to find, but they are manufactured according to the highest standards. Homeopathy is  considered one of the safest choice of medicines for self-treatment because the active ingredients have no reported side effects. Active ingredients are micro-doses of natural ingredients. And if you’re buying one of our medicines for children, your kids will love their sweet taste.

Boiron’s products are easy to find, easy to purchase, and easy to use. So head to a pharmacy or grocery store near you or visit us online to buy these homeopathic medicines. It’s a wise decision made simple!

One of the top worries among parents is that their children will get sick, and when the winter flu and cold season hits, illnesses can pop up more frequently.

Yet over-the-counter children’s products on the market have received mixed reviews, including the negative publicity surrounding children’s cold and cough medicines when the Food and Drug Administration raised a red flag about the use of these products in children. Warnings such as this one likely cause concern and confusion among parents about what they can give to their children to treat illness safely and effectively.

Good News!

Homeopathic medicines offer parents safer option. In fact, homeopathic medicines are one of the safest choices for self-treatment. Why? These medicines

• do not contain any of the ingredients under question for use in children
• have no known side effects (not even drowsiness or jitteriness in children)
• don’t interact with other medication
• don’t mask symptoms (allowing doctors and patients to easily detect and respond to symptoms of serious illnesses should they arise)
• are not body-mass dependent (so there’s no need to give more or less medicine depending on body weight), and
• have no risk of overdose

Boiron’s New Medicines

For 65 years, families around the world have relied on Oscillococcinum to safely relieve flu-like symptoms. Now parents can find Children’s Oscillococcinum and Children’s Coldcalm for colds in the kid’s aisle along with Children’s Chestal cough syrup.

Each of these products contains active ingredients that are micro-doses of natural ingredients. They don’t contain any of the ingredients called into question by the FDA for use in children.

Parent-Friendly Products

All of Boiron’s products are regulated as drugs by the FDA¹ and are clearly labeled for specific indications, making directions easy for parents to understand. And, they are manufactured according to the highest standards.

Parents can quickly and affordably pick up these over-the-counter medicines without a prescription in the children’s aisle or in the cough, cold and flu section of health food stores and independent pharmacies nationwide.

In today’s busy world, parents have a lot of concerns on their minds. Flu and cold medicines for their children shouldn’t be on that list.

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Drug safety is always a top concern on the minds of consumers. Many medications often come with a list of side effects, some of which are bearable, some of which are not. Also, warnings about a drug’s safety can sometimes emerge long after that medicine has been on the market.

One example is the Food and Drug Administration’s public health advisory in 2007 about over-the-counter cough and cold medicines for children. A panel convened by the FDA recommended that the agency not allow drugs containing antihistamines, decongestants and cough suppressants to be used for infants and children younger than 2 years old. Human error leading to overdosing was a major concern, citing confusion with directions or accidentally giving the same ingredient when administering multiple products.

As the agency continues to review the safety of these drugs in children ages 2 through 11, manufacturers voluntarily relabeled the cold and cough medications in question instruction parents not to used them in children under 4 years of age.

Warnings such as this one aren’t taken lightly and often encourage consumers to be even more vigilant about which medicines they take. This increased vigilance drives consumers to do more research about safe new medicines.

A Homeopathic Solution

As we said above, the FDA is concerned about accidental misuse of these types of medications, leading to dangerous side effects in children. Homeopathic medicines, however, don’t contain any of the ingredients under question for use in small children.

These medicines also don’t interact with other medication.

Here’s another safety benefit of homeopathic medicines: They do not mask symptoms. As a result, doctors and patients can easily detect and respond to symptoms of serious illnesses if they are present.

Finally, a crucial safety advantage is that there’s no risk of overdose with homeopathic medicines.

All of these benefits make homeopathic medicines one of the safest choices for self-treatment.

Safe, Effective Children’s Medicines

Earlier in this post we mentioned the FDA’s advisory about children’s cough and cold medicines. The concern about these drugs leaves many parents wondering how to ease their children’s cold-related ailments, especially with the winter cold season upon us.

Boiron has created Children’s Oscillococcinum for flu-like symptoms and Children’s Coldcalm Pellets for colds. Parents will be able to more easily find these safe and reliable over-the-counter medicines in the children’s aisle along with Boiron’s established Children’s Chestal for coughs.

These homeopathic flu, cold and cough medicines do not contain any of the ingredients under question for use in children. Their active ingredients are micro-doses of natural ingredients.

Making It Easy for Parents

All of Boiron’s products are regulated as drugs by the FDA¹ and are clearly labeled for specific indications, making directions easy for parents to understand.

Not only that, parents can quickly and affordably pick up these over-the-counter medicines without a prescription in the children’s aisle or in the cough, cold and flu section of health food stores and independent pharmacies nationwide.

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Could there be anything worse than one of your little one getting sick? Yes, two little ones being sick! Followed by you catch something. You know everything comes to a halt when you get sick.

Unfortunately, cough, colds and flu germs spread quickly around the home and school. As kids bring home unwelcomed extras from school and then proceed to contaminate everything from the family Wii to your iPhone, you need to play defense.

Look Out for Early Symptoms

Types of coughs include those associated with a tickling in the throat, dry coughs triggered by cold air, wet coughs caused by mucus and nighttime coughs.

Signs and symptoms of the common cold may include sneezing, coughing, a runny or stuffy nose, a sore or an itchy throat and possibly a fever.

For the 2009 school year, flu symptoms are already here. Because there are various strains circulating this year, it’s possible for flu and flu-like symptoms to persist into its typically timeframe, ending sometime in March or beyond, despite it’s early appearance. Watch for these symptoms:

• fever,
• headache,
• extreme tiredness,
• dry cough,
• sore throat,
• runny or stuffy nose, and
• muscle aches.
• Stomach symptoms, such as nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, also can occur. These symptoms are more common in children than adults.

Prevent Germ Transmission

Children (and parents) should take the following measures to try to prevent illness:

• Wash your hands frequently, including
  * before eating,
  * after using the toilet, and
  * after playing in public places, such as playgrounds.
• Cough and sneeze into the corner of your elbow.
• Periodically disinfect toys and common surfaces.
• Keep your hands away from your eyes and mouth.

Be Prepared to Act at First Symptom

If your child does get sick, Boiron USA offers safe and reliable homeopathic medicines for children that can help alleviate the above symptoms.

Children’s Chestal simplifies choosing a cough medicine since its an economical all-in-one formula. Good for both day and night, It helps all types of coughs—wet or dry—that come on with a cold.

Children’s Coldcalm Pellets is designed to target specific symptoms of each stage of the cold—even early symptoms like a minor sore throat. It works on sneezing, runny nose, and nasal congestion.

Children’s Oscillococcinum helps reduce both the duration and severity of flu and flu-like symptoms.

All of these medicines are considered top choices for self-treatment because the active ingredients in homeopathic medicines have no reported side effects. Active ingredients are micro-doses of natural ingredients and contain none of the substances questioned by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use in children. And you’ll love that kids love the sweet taste of all three.

So as children get involved in school this season, keep this information in mind to curb the onset of severe symptoms.