While symptomatic treatments are important to help your child feel better, this is not totally true anymore.
There are many medications available now to help treat the flu.
First, determine whether your child has a common cold, or whether they really have caught the flu.
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Cold symptoms are usually mild and develop two to five days after exposure to someone else who is sick.
Extra fluids, acool mist humidifier, and rest will likely help with some of his symptoms.
Symptomatic treatments, as described above, may also help your child feel better.
Is it a Cold or the Flu?
Nemours KidsHealth.Is it a cold, the flu, an RSV infection, or COVID-19?
American Academy of Pediatrics.Caring for kids with colds & flu: simple remedies to ease symptoms.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Influenza antiviral medications: summary for clinicians.
