Here is the latest on the cold medicine for kid update.
Drug companies say no cold medicines...
OK call me a heartless jerk. But of the millions of children out in the US who have taken cold medicines under the age of 4....1500 have gone to the ER and 3 have died. It's tragic when ANY child dies of course but that is a tiny number for us to ban cold medicines.
I've used them on my then infant son, and they work. Can't be placebo since a 12 month old doesn't know what a placebo is. And we thinik that the people who couldn't read instructions BEFORE on bottles are going to be more careful now when they grab whatever cold medicine they can find to give to their kid? Do we want them to try and do the math on dividing dosages meant for a 6 year old? At least before you had a dropper, it's hard to accidentally give an overdose with that...unless you give repeated applications of the drugs...which I know family's have done b/c they don't communicate what's been given or they panic and try more when something doesn't work. I think this is screaming for even more problems.
Thus ends the venting.
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