Dangerous Cases of Cold Medicines and Children
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Cough and cold medicines send about 7,000 children to hospital emergency rooms each year, the government said in its first national estimate. About two-thirds of the cases were children who took the medicines unsupervised. But about one-quarter involved cases in which parents gave the proper dosage and an allergic reaction or some other problem developed, the study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. Less than two weeks ago, the Food and Drug Administration warned parents that over-the-counter cough and cold medicines were too dangerous for children younger than 2.
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If you catch a cold or get the flu this winter, be very careful if you take more than one medication to ease your symptoms. The two drugs could share ingredients that could pose a danger
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Cough and cold medicines send about 7,000 children to hospital emergency rooms each year, the U.S. government said Monday in its first national estimate of the problem.
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Parents should not give toddlers and babies over-the-counter cough syrup because of the possibility of "serious and potentially life-threatening side effects," the Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday.
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Cold and cough medicines given to infants and toddlers work no better than dummy pills and can be dangerous, pediatricians seeking to curb their use told government health advisers Thursday.
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No kid likes to be stuck with a needle. IVs? Forget about it. In short, most things in hospitals are pretty scary for children, especially surgery. Enter Children's Hospital's anesthesiologists, a six-member team of specially trained doctors who make sure that surgery is not frightening and that ...
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A spoonful of honey might quiet a childâs cough more effectively and safely than the most common over-the-counter cough medicine.
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Rising numbers of children are being prescribed antidepressants and other mind-altering drugs, research revealed. No pills are licensed for use by people under 16 years of age, but doctors can issue them where they feel it&#39;s clinically appropriate.
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SILVER SPRING, Maryland  - U.S. health advisers considered on Thursday if over-the-counter cough and cold medicines should still be sold for young children, as pediatricians argued the drugs are dangerous and do not work.
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WASHINGTON -- Parents may be left with only love and lots of liquid to give their sniffling babies and toddlers now that the government is declaring over-the-counter cough and cold medicines too risky for tots. The Food and Drug Administration was issuing that warning Thursday to parents of children...
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Children under 2 years old should  not be given over-the-counter cough and cold medicines because  they are too dangerous for that age group, U.S. health  authorities advised on Thursday.
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If a recently reported case is a reliable indicator, the over-the-counter medication pseudoephedrine can cause a heart attack -- even in healthy young adults.
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Over-the-counter cough and cold drugs send an estimated 7,000 U.S. children under the age of 12 to emergency rooms every year, most for overdoses, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Monday.
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Antipsychotic drugs prescribed to children for bipolar disorders, aggression, and schizophrenia have been linked to a higher risk for type 2 diabetes in a new study presented at a American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry meeting.
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A U.S. advisory panel  will recommend on Friday if over-the-counter cough and cold  medicines should still be sold for children up to age 12 amid  complaints the drugs can be dangerous and do not work.
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Common children's cold and cough medicines are coming under scrutiny from federal drug regulators, who say the remedies and their recommended doses have not been studied enough in children
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NEW YORK  - Most households where kids  visit do not safely store guns or household chemicals that can  act as deadly poisons, new research shows.