[MargaretR]

I can understand why parents resort to using cough supressants when the child and the rest of the family is losing sleep by it, but agree that a cough is a good thing to get rid of the nasty stuff in the lungs

A simple way to ease night time coughing is to sleep sitting up, so that mucous from the back of the nose is more likely to drip into the digestive tract instead of the bronchial tube.