Last week, my kid and I were coughing, coughing and coughing and gagging on a lot of phlegm that I swear it felt almost as bad as the croup he got last year.
Since I can’t take ANY cough medicine now, I resorted to the good old Nim Jiom Pei Pa Koa, which a trusted [...]

With ANOTHER post like that, I’m seriously puzzled as to whether it’s the the travel, China, the season or a toddler’s life? Can you believe that we spent a whole month in Malaysia yet the little fella was fine?
We’d actually stopped over in KL a few days before flying back to China to break [...]

Croup has to be one of the WORST illnesses a child could ever get! Last week was an agonizing time for poor Lucas while this week, I struggle with a cold, keeping up with the recovered toddler and our upcoming Beijing “break”
As I posted about symptoms of croup here, croup comes on suddenly [...]

NOTE: Kindly refrain from suggesting that I try this or that unless you can send them to me. We are in provincial China where Western-type medicines, materials and products are either NOT available or extremely expensive due to protectionist trade policies (add 100-150% to retail prices). Thank you.
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As I’d blogged earlier, life with the four [...]