Mum says she cleared up her baby's cold with onion and sugar remedy

The remedy is simple: you cut a brown onion into large slices, sprinkle sugar on top, then let it sit in a small bowl for a few hours. Eventually you’ll see juice from the onion collecting at the bottom of the plate.

Carol recommends giving a spoonful of the juice to the child every hour.

Carol told KidSpot that within hours of giving her son the syrup, he was bringing up phlegm, which reduced the congestion in his chest. Soon the coughing was reduced too.

‘To say I was amazed would be an understatement,’ said Carol. ‘Wow, something that actually works.

‘It’s a great recipe because it’s easy to do, two ingredients which you have sitting in your pantry or fridge. It’s quick acting and all natural. And the most important part is that it actually works.’

This isn’t a new hack by any means – Carol originally shared it two years ago, and people have been recommending it as a remedy for decades.

It’s thought to work because onion thins out phlegm, making it easier to rid the lungs of congestion. Onions also contain vitamin C, which is often used to treat colds (although there’s no evidence to suggest that vitamin C has any impact in preventing or remedying colds).

Sure, onion sugar syrup might be a placebo, and in the case of Carol’s son the cold may just have cleared up on its own.

But it’s worth a go, right?

Just make sure to chat to a doctor before giving your baby a home remedy, to make sure that nothing more serious is going on. Once you’ve got the all clear and are certain it’s just the case of the sniffles, go ahead and try piling some sugar on an onion. Even if it doesn’t work, at least your sick kid gets a taste of something sweet.

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