Cold times: regular tea as effective as cough medicine

During 2018, we spent SEK 140 million on such products. If you exclude the amount of cough medicine sold to all residents in Sweden, on average there will be 32 doses per person. It shows statistics that the E-health authority has produced for SVT Nyheter.

But it is unclear what effect they have. Region Skåne writes in its therapy guidelines in 2019 that “Cough medicine has very limited and poorly proven effect. (...) They are therefore not generally recommended. "

SVT Nyheter has talked to the chief physician Lennart Hansson at the University Hospital in Lund, who confirms that the scientific support is weak. He thinks it's better for people with coughs to save their money.

- Look at what cure you want, drink something sweet.

Here are examples of other studies on cough medicine.

https://www.lakartidningen.se/OldWebArticlePdf/1/10176/LKT0836s2398_2401.pdf