Are cough medicines ineffective and risky?

Your throat itches, you cough... Maybe it's due to a cold or pollens making an appearance. Whatever the case, you sleep poorly and think you have no choice but to take cough medicine. At your peril! According to the French magazine "Que choisir", these remedies are rarely useful. Worse still, they have such undesirable side effects that youʹd have to do without them.