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This is the sort of thing that keeps me up at night.

Published by james on March 2, 2007 in Family. Tags: Baby, Healthcare, Medicine, worries.

Greg at Daddy Types adds to my worries…

Turns out all the active ingredients in infant and children’s cough & cold remedies were essentially grandfathered into the FDA regulatory system because of decades of use in adults, and so they’ve never been systematically tested or researched for use in kids.

Not that the occasion for cold medicine has arisen yet but it leaves me questioning all the other OTC products that are recommended to us by family, friends, pediatricians, and pharmacists. Sigh.

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1 68stationwagon
Mar 5th, 2007 at 8:37 am

remember: never give a child aspirin.

as your daughter gets older and hits the age for the great american pastime: remedies…we recommend delsum…purely for treating cough. is a suppressant - NOT an expectorant.

chose wisely.
2 james
Mar 5th, 2007 at 8:49 am

Our pediatrician has us giving her children’s liquid tylenol (half-dose) when needed, though so far she only needed it the day of her first booster shots. Cough and cold medicines really make me wary just because of the effect it has on us I can only imagine what it might do to her. Oddly enough we have friends whose pediatrician gave them a recipe to make their own. It involved honey, ginger, and nip of vodka, among a few other things and it made about a 12-16oz bottle. Old school.

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