MUCINEX CHILDREN'S LAUNCHES FIRST CHEWABLE COLD & FLU MEDICINE

New Mucinex Children's Mighty Chews Cold & Flu Offers Easy, Mess-Free Relief Parents and Kids Can Both Feel Good About

PARSIPPANY, N.J., Aug. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- No more negotiating or fighting with your kids to get them to take their medicine. Mucinex Children's, the #1 pediatrician and pharmacist recommended over-the-counter brand for children's cough and cold relief* from Reckitt, is proud to introduce Mucinex Children's Mighty Chews Cold & Flu – the first and only chewable OTC medicine for children designed to relieve multiple cold and flu symptoms*. This game-changing format joins the brand's Mighty Chews line, offering parents a new way to dose medicine. Mighty Chews Cold & Flu Daytime relieves kids' fever, cough, headache, sore throat, and body pain symptoms while the nighttime formula also relieves runny nose and sneezing. Both products provide symptom relief without the mess and stress of traditional liquid medications. Every year in the United States, adults have an average of two to three colds, and children often have more¹, making it important to have an easy-to-dose solution on hand.  

Anyone who has ever struggled to get a sick child to take medicine knows the routine—measuring the right dose, coaxing them to take it, cleaning up the spills. Mucinex Children's Mighty Chews Cold & Flu is here to change that. With its easy-to-dose chewable format, parents can say goodbye to pouring and pleading, and hello to medicine that's more convenient.

"As a pediatrician and a mom, I know how challenging it can be to give children cold and flu medicine, especially when they're already not feeling well. Parents are often juggling symptoms, emotions, and dosing instructions all at once. Mucinex Children's Mighty Chews Cold & Flu offers a solution that's not only effective but also makes the process easier for families," said Dr. Gabriella Dauer, Pediatrician & Founder of Dauer Pediatrics.

Each dose of mixed berry flavored medicated chews is formulated with active ingredients that temporarily relieve common cold and flu symptoms. Mucinex Children's Mighty Chews Cold & Flu is designed for parents who want both efficacy and ease when their child is under the weather.

Behind the scenes, bringing this new format to life required thoughtful collaboration and innovation from Reckitt's R&D team. "R&D collaborated with internal and external partners to develop the formulation, manufacturing process and analytical test methods to ensure control of the content of each active ingredient in every chew," said Carl Muise, Research & Development Senior Formulation Associate at Reckitt. 

"We're constantly looking for ways to make caring for families easier and stress-free," Henry Turgoose, Vice President, Upper Respiratory for the U.S. at Reckitt. "We created Mighty Chews Cold & Flu to solve a real challenge parents face: getting their child to take medicine without the mess, stress, or resistance. This new format delivers the same trusted relief families count on from Mucinex, now in a way that fits into real life."

Made for children six years of age and older, Mucinex Children's Mighty Chews Cold & Flu is available in a Mixed Berry Flavor, in both a daytime and nighttime format, and can be found at national retailers including Walmart, Target, Walgreens, CVS, and more. For more information, visit www.mucinex.com.

*As an OTC brand in the children's cough/cold category (AlphaImpactRx ProVoice Survey)
*As an OTC brand in children's cough/cold combination category based on Pharmacy Times OTC Guide 2025 – 2026
*Among children's non-homeopathic cough/cold category. Neilson IQ L52W ending 5/10/25
¹CDC "About common cold" October 15, 2024: About Common Cold | Common Cold | CDC

About Mucinex
Mucinex always has your back when cold and flu symptoms hit, offering a wide range of formulations that can help ease discomfort, day and night. Whether you're struggling with a nasty cough, unpleasant mucus or a nose that just won't stop running, the Mucinex family of products provides relief you can trust when it's time to kick all your worst symptoms to the curb. For more than 20 years, Mucinex has provided consumers with world-class mucus and congestion relief, and it is #1 in more categories than you can imagine:

• The #1 most trusted brand among physicians for cough and cold symptoms*
• The #1 most trusted brand among respiratory specialists for cough and cold symptoms*
• The #1 over-the-counter brand used by doctors for their own cough and cold symptoms*

For more information, visit Mucinex.com

About Reckitt 
We make the products people trust to care for the ones they love. We are home to some of the world's best-loved consumer health and hygiene brands, including Dettol, Durex, Finish, Gaviscon, Harpic, Lysol, Mucinex, Nurofen, Strepsils, Vanish and Veet. Consumers are at the heart of everything we do. By creating innovative, science-backed solutions, we support people every day to live healthier lives. Reckitt exists to protect, heal and nurture in the pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. This commitment goes beyond the products we make. Through our actions, we expand access to healthcare, education and economic opportunities. We support the planet by reducing waste, conserving resources and driving sustainable innovation. We believe good health starts at home. With every action we take, we strive to make our consumers' lives easier, cleaner and healthier, to strengthen communities and to create a more sustainable future. *Reckitt is the trading name of the Reckitt group of companies

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