An advisory panel of scientists and doctors advised the FDA to recommend that over the counter cough and cold medicines should NOT be used for children under 6? years old?

It’s true. They determined that their is no scientific evidence of their effectiveness and that their effectiveness on children was “assumed” because of studies done on adults.

The FDA, the agency that was created to protect us- took this information from its advisory board and made a formal announcement.

They recommended that these medications not be given to children under 2 years old!

Not 6 years old, as the evidence showed, but 2 years old.? The ‘evidence’ for THIS recommendation was borne simply out of thin air and not science.In the meantime, Canada has made a formal statement that they do not recommend using these medications on children under 6 years old as the evidence bears out.

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So, what does this mean for you and your child. This means that you are absolutely putting your child at risk if you give them cough and cold medicines if they are under 6 years old. You are essentially gambling as to whether these medications could cause your child harm or not. There have been NO long term studies done to show that these medications are safe and effective for what they claim they are safe and effective for.

So, while their is ZERO evidence that cough and cold medicines work for children and there is ZERO safety data on them, doctors continue to recommend them to parents while claiming that everything that they do has a scientific basis to it. But if you think that these medications have been used by thousands of parents for years without any problem, think again. Many of these over the counter medications have put plenty of children in the hospital with normal use.

And do you remember Reyes Syndrome? Reyes syndrome is a serious disease that was given to children when parents gave them aspirin for fever. That’s why so called “baby aspirin” is not given to babies anymore. There were thousands of children that became ill with Reyes Syndrome after parents gave their children with fevers a “baby aspirin” to bring their fever down. The ‘traditional’ wisdom was wrong then, is it wrong now? We don’t really know, but what we DO know, is that we don’t really know much about how these medications effect children.

Just another reason to make sure that you do your OWN research when it comes to the health of yourself and your children.

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