Honey might help reduce cough symptoms and make colds less severe for both kids and adults, according to a review of many studies.

Honey helps people with colds or coughs feel better by reducing how often they cough and how bad their cough is, compared to regular treatments.

Honey helps people with colds feel better overall, cough less often, and have less severe coughs than usual treatments, according to medical studies.

Honey might help kids and their parents sleep better when they have a cough, compared to doing nothing. Studies show it makes a small but noticeable difference in how much sleep is affected.

For kids with coughs, honey might work about the same as a common cough medicine called dextromethorphan, but we're not very sure because only a couple small studies have looked at it.

For kids with coughs, honey might work better than a common cough medicine called diphenhydramine at making them cough less often, but the evidence isn't very strong yet.