Do you ever worry about what medications your young child should/could take? There are so many over the counter medicines to choose from. Where do you begin? It’s difficult to know what to do. Even the experts are worried.

“Experts urged the Food and Drug Administration to ban over-the-counter, multisymptom cough and cold medicines for children under 6.”

“The recommendation, in a 356-page safety review, is the strongest signal yet that the agency may take strong action against the roughly 800 popular medicines marketed in the United States under names like Toddler’s Dimetapp, Triaminic Infant and Little Colds.”

“The next step in the process is a meeting of outside experts on Oct. 18 and 19 to examine the medicines’ safety and offer recommendations to the agency.”

“In the new safety review, the agency’s experts suggested that all “infant” cough and cold formulations be removed from the market, and that the droppers, cups and syringes included with products for children be standardized to reduce the risks of confusion and overdose.”
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