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If you mean N-acetyl cysteine, it's a glutathione precursor. Glutathione is an important antioxidant critical to liver function, among other things.

Milk thistle (as a supplement) is a popular glutathione precursor. There are others but I don't remember them because milk thistle worked for me, so that's what I used.

How do you determine a safe dosage for a child?

I don't know. I'm not a child. I didn't give it to my children.

If I were trying to help a child, I would likely start by removing particleboard furniture and other sources of off-gassing from their environment as a means to lighten the load on their liver.

Though to be frank, I did that for me as well, on top of supplements because I was very sick at the time.

There is some limited evidence that NAC can be effective for treating severe COVID-19 symptoms. However, I don't think it has been incorporated into any of the official treatment protocols.

https://www.europeanreview.org/article/27898

Anecdotally, I've been able to almost completely curb my lifelong nail-biting habit with NAC.

What’s NAC?

N-acetyl-cysteine.

Thanks, looks interesting.