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Back to School: Back to Germs! Let Zarbee’s Help Naturally (GIVEAWAY!!!)

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If you’ve left the house at all in the last few weeks, then you’ve seen the signs everywhere: it’s “Back to School” time. Depending on where you live in the country, school might be starting as early as next week, or you might still have a month to go before it’s time to head back.

For Darah, “school” is her part-time day care program, and it doesn’t start back until mid-September. That feels like a million years from now, but I know it will be here before I know it!

I’m going to be shopping at some consignment sales in the next few weeks to get her some “new” clothes, and her Grammie-O is also coming in September with tons of those awesome hand-me-downs that my sister-in-law so generously shares with us. So we’ll be all set with clothes. I’m also taking advantage of the various school supply sales happening in the drug stores every week so that I can help stock the room with crayons and such.

But there’s another thing that I’ve stocked up on, as well, and it may be something that you aren’t thinking of: remedies for when the wave of germs hit. That’s right, back-t0-school means back-to-germs! If your child has ever been in a classroom full of other kids, toddlers or babies before, then you know that getting a cold (or worse) in August or September has just as much of a chance of happening as getting one in November.

You need to do an inventory of the medicine that you have on hand that is safe for children, and then add what you need to your list.

I happen to have a recommendation for you: Zarbee’s. This is a brand of cough syrups that are designed for children. They have a really cute bee on the packaging, but that’s not why I’m suggesting that you get them. From their site: “Zarbee’s Cough Syrup contains a blend of special dark honeys, vitamins and immune-boosting ingredients. The ingredients in Zarbee’s are all-natural, side-effect-free and proven in clinical trials to be effective at calming coughs and sore throats in children and young adults.”

You see, most cough syrups on the market have not been proven to be effective at all (a nurse taught me this last year and I will never forget it). In fact, in studies, honey has been shown to have more of an impact than the majority of cough medicines available over the counter. That’s why I love that Zarbee’s makes use of the ingredient that actually works, and adds to it immunity boosters.

And you can imagine that if the key ingredient is honey, that this is actually something your kids will be willing to take without a fight! Hooray!

Buy it!: Zarbee’s is available at retailers nationwide, including Walgreens. For a complete list, click here.

Win it!: One lucky Stuff Parents Need reader will win a variety of Zarbee’s products to get you ready for all those germs headed your way once school is back in session (ARV $24). The contest will run until August 12th at 11:59pm EST when a winner will be selected via Random.org. The winner will have 48 hours to respond to winning notification before the prize is forfeited and a new winner is selected. Open to residents of the United States. Limit one entrant per household, please.

Mandatory entry: Check out the resource page at Zarbee’s and tell me something you learned!

Additional entries:

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Be sure to enter my other current giveaways, found on the sidebar of the page.

Disclosure: I received complimentary products for review purposes. The thoughts and opinions expressed here are strictly my own. 

 

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  4. I learned that research conducted at Penn State confirmed that the ingredients in Zarbee’s are scientifically proven to be more effective and safer than traditional, drug-based cough syrups at calming sore throats and coughing in children and young adults.

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  8. I learned that it is Safe: All-natural, and thoroughly proven in clinical trials at Penn State, Zarbee’s Cough Syrup gently calms a child’s cough and sore throat, and does it naturally without the use of drugs.

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  15. I learned that clinical trials show that Zarbees is scientifically proven to be safer and more effective than traditional cough medicine. Yay!

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  21. I learned that these people know what they’re doing. Rather than stopping a cough (which the body needs to do to help get rid of the illness), it calms and soothes instead.
    ohmiss14 at yahoo dot com ☮

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  24. I learned that the product has been proven in clinical trails at Penn State. Thanks for the chance to win.

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  32. Be prepared for those winter months ahead….buy a cough medicine that not only helps the cough, but makes your throat feel better as well.

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  35. I learned that it was a trial that was run comparing over the counter cough syrups to buckwheat honey, which buckwheat honey seemed to calm coughs in both children and adults.

    danellejohns at gmail dot com

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  43. I learned that “According to the FDA, as reported by The New York Times, emergency room visits caused by overdoses of dextromethorphan rose to nearly 8,000 in 2008.”. That is really scary! I would much rather give my daughter something that is natural and not going to send her to the emergency room.

    appetizerforacraftymind(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  44. I learned from their website that Zarbee’s doesn’t suppress a cough like most cough medicines. It soothes and calms the cough naturally and safely.

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  48. -I learned: It is all-natural and proven at Clinical Trials at Penn State.

    aliaskys (at) yahoo dot com
    THANK YOU!! 🙂

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  56. I learned that the ingredients in Zarbee’s are proven to be more effective and safer than traditional cough syrups

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