NZ Health Naturally Manuka Honey UMF® 10+ Lozenges for Kids with Strawberry

What are Manuka Honey Lozenges for Kids?

A sore throat in a child can be an uncomfortable and unpleasant experience that a child may not be able to share, and usually indicates an infection of the upper respiratory tract like the common cold, which can make them miserable. Lozenges for Kids are a combination of two of nature’s miracles both produced by honey bees, in a pleasant flavoured lozenge providing an easy to use, non-medicated treatment that helps soothe a sore throat in children over 2 years of age.

Why use Manuka Honey Lozenges for Kids?

Having something soothing to suck for a sore throat, which is usually indicative of an upper respiratory tract infection, can help relieve the discomfort and pain that a child may not be able to communicate. Lozenges for Kids are a healthy non-medicated option to help soothe a child’s sore throat and contain a combination of two of nature’s miracles, both produced by honey bees. Propolis and honey are and have been used for thousands of years for their many medicinal properties, including antioxidant, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, immunomodulatory. Propolis and honey in Lozenges for Kids helps reduce inflammation and pain and also helps combat infection that may be the cause of a sore throat.

What is propolis?

Propolis is a mixture of bee and plant products, produced by honey bees from resins collected mainly from the buds of from various different trees, which the bees mix with enzymes, wax and pollen. This becomes propolis, which the bees use to protect the hive from invaders such as parasites, repair the hive by sealing cracks and gaps, and sanitise the hive to protect the larvae from microbial infection. Propolis has been used in traditional medicine to treat a variety of ailments including inflammation, viral diseases, ulcers, and burns, due to its healing and antiseptic properties. Propolis is rich is bioactive chemicals including flavonoids and triterpenes and has antioxidant, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, immunomodulatory and wound healing properties ^{1, 2,3.} 

What is UMF® 10+ Honey?

Manuka honey is a rich sugar solution generated from nectar foraged from flowers, processed in the digestive system of the Honey bee and stored in the wax cells of the honeycomb. Honey has also been used for thousands of years in traditional medicine for its nutritional and medicinal properties. These include antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and wound healing properties, which can be applied to treating burns and ulcers4. Manuka honey contains unique compounds that give this special honey unique health benefits, such as methylglyoxal which is contributes to its potent anti-microbial properties^2. Manuka honey is graded using a registered grading system that ensures Manuka honey originates from the nectar of the Manuka bush, Leptospermum scoparium, which is indigenous to New Zealand. In UMF 10+ honey the methylglyoxal content is guaranteed to be 263 mg/kg^5.

For more information see Unique Manuka Factor (UMF) on the next tab.

What are Key Benefits of Lozenges for Kids?

• 100% New Zealand made 
• contains natural fresh propolis extracted using a sustainable process, at a suitable low dose for children over 2 years of age
• contains Manuka honey with the Unique Manuka Factor (UMF® between 10 and 15), which is not found in all Manuka honeys
• has powerful antioxidant, antimicrobial, immunomodulatory and wound healing properties
• natural ingredients for soothing sore a throat in children over 2 years of age
• pleasant tasting natural strawberry flavour provides a healthy alternative to lollies
• contains only natural red colouring with no chemical additives, flavours or preservatives 

How does Lozenges for Kids help soothe your child’s sore throat?

Medicinal properties of propolis and honey

Propolis is widely used for its various medicinal properties in contemporary complementary medicine, including for upper respiratory tract infections, to prevent caries and to treat gingivitis and stomatitis; also as a topical preparation for wound healing in the treatment of burns, acne, dermatitis and herpes infections6. Similarly honey is used for its antioxidant, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory and wound healing properties, and is used as a topical antibacterial wound care treatment7. Flavonoids are phenolic phytochemicals (plant compounds) found in both honey and propolis, and are thought to contribute to most of their many medicinal properties^{1, 2, 3, 6, 7 8, 9.} Honey and propolis have been shown to have immunomodulatory properties (affects the way the immune system works) and influence certain cytokines (chemical messengers) involved in the immune response^{2, 7, 10.} The immunomodulatory properties of propolis may also explain its anti-bacterial and anti-viral actions, supported by animal and in vitro studies^2. A sore throat, or pharyngitis, is caused by inflammation due to infection usually with Streptococcus bacteria. Honey, with its anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial properties, is effective in soothing a sore throat by coating the mucous membrane and reducing inflammation while destroying the bacteria that cause the infection^3. In a study comparing honey with the regular cough medications dextromethorphan and diphenhydramine, honey was found to more effective for relieving cough, which is also a symptom of upper respiratory infection^11. In a review of clinical studies honey was found to be particularly effective in relieving cough in children^12.

Serving suggestions of Lozenges for Kids

• Lozenges for Kids are suitable for children over 2 years of age. 
• Slowly dissolve one lozenge in the mouth and repeat up to 5 times per day as required.

For best result:

Store in a cool dry place, away from direct sun or heat.

Caution:

• Propolis can cause severe allergic reactions in some people. 
• Lozenges for Kids are not suitable for children under 2 years.
• Keep out of young children’s reach.

Product Size

12 Lozenges

References

The following references provide scientific support for the use of this product:

1. Viuda-Martos M, Ruiz-Navajas Y, Fernández-López J, Pérez-Álvarez JA. Functional properties of honey, propolis, and royal jelly, Journal of Food Science2008, vol. 73, no. 9, pp. R117–R124. 
2. Cornara L, Biagi M, Xiao J, Burlando B. Therapeutic Properties of Bioactive Compounds from Different Honeybee Products. Front Pharmacol. 2017 Jun 28;8:412. 
3. Pasupuleti VW, Sammugam L, Ramesh N, Gan SH. Honey, Propolis, and Royal Jelly: A Comprehensive Review of Their Biological Actions and Health Benefits. Oxid Med Cell Longev.2017;2017:1259510
4. Alvarez-Suarez JM, Gasparrini M, Forbes-Hernández TY, Mazzoni L, Giampieri F. The Composition and Biological Activity of Honey: A Focus on Manuka Honey. Foods. 2014 Jul 21;3(3):420-432. 
5. Beitlich N, Lübken T, Kaiser M, Ispiryan L, Speer K. Fluorescent Pteridine Derivatives as New Markers for the Characterization of Genuine Monofloral New Zealand Manuka (Leptospermum scoparium) Honey. J. Agric. Food Chem., 2016, 64 (46), pp 8886–8891
6. Wagh VD. Propolis: A Wonder Bees Product and Its Pharmacological Potentials. Adv Pharmacol Sci 2013; 2013: 308249.
7. Carter DA, Blair SE, Cokcetin NN, Bouzo D, Brooks P, Schothauer R, Harry EJ. Therapeutic Manuka Honey: No Longer So Alternative. Front Microbiol. 2016 Apr 20;7:569. 
8. Silva-Carvalho R, Baltazar F, Almeida-Aguiar C. Propolis: A Complex Natural Product with a Plethora of Biological Activities That Can Be Explored for Drug Development. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med 2015; 2015: 206439.
9. Huang S, Zhang C-P, Wang K, Li GQ, Hu F-L. Recent Advances in the Chemical Composition of Propolis. Molecules 2014, 19, 19610-19632. 
10. Molan P, Rhodes T. Honey: A Biologic Wound Dressing. Wounds 2015 Jun;27(6):141-51.
11. Shadkam MN, Mozaffari-Khosravi H, Mozayan MR. A comparison of the effect of honey, dextromethorphan, and diphenhydramine on nightly cough and sleep quality in children and their parents. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, vol. 16, no. 7, pp. 787–793, 2010. 
12. Henatsch D, Wesseling F, Kross KW, Stokroos RJ. Clin Otolaryngol. 2016 Oct;41(5):519-31. Honey and beehive products in otorhinolaryngology: a narrative review.