Cough and cold medicines has been taken off the market for fear of improper usage. Mainly children under the age of two years should not be associated with these cough and cold medicines unless instructed so by a physician otherwise. The smaller your body mass the easier you absorb the medicine, causing toxicity. Here is a list of six cough and cold medicines given to infants permanently taken off the shelves. Make sure to be in the look out for:
-Asda Children's Chesty Cough Syrup
-Boots Chesty Cough Syrup One Year Plus
-Boots Sore Throat and Cough Linctus One Year Plus
-Buttercup Infant Cough Syrup
-CalCough Chesty and Bell's Children's Chesty Cough
Some other cough and cold medicines that are voluntarily being taken off the market for fear of potential misuse of infant cold medicines are:
-Dimetapp Decongestant Plus Cough Infant Drops
-Dimetapp Decongestant Infant Drops
-Little Colds Decongestant Plus Cough
-Little Colds Multi-Symptom Cold Formula
-PEDIACARE Infant Drops Decongestant (containing pseudoephedrine)
-PEDIACARE Infant Drops Decongestant & Cough (containing pseudoephedrine)
-PEDIACARE Infant Dropper Long-Acting Cough
-PEDIACARE Infant Dropper Long-Acting Cough
-PEDIACARE Infant Dropper Decongestant & Cough (containing phenylephrine)
-Robitussin Infant Cough DM Drops
-Triaminic Infant & Toddler Thin Strips Decongestant
-Triaminic Infant & Toddler Thin Strips Decongestant Plus Cough
-TYLENOL Concentrated Infants ' Drops Plus Cold
-TYLENOL Concentrated Infants ' Drops Plus Cold & Cough
There are a dozen other cough and cold medicines for children that are temporarily being taken off the shelves also. However, these medicines are being repackaged with better instructions before being placed back on the market. Instructions such as, not allowing a child under the age of two to take the medication, and the right dosage needed for the child. Consumers need to be aware that reading the labels are very important in the lives of children, especially under the age of 6.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/child-cough-remedies-taken-off-shelves-801345.html
http://blogs.webmd.com/healthy-children/2007/10/infant-cough-cold-drugs-withdrawn.html
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Thanks for the list of cough and cold drugs to be wary of. I read that children under the age of 12 shouldn't be given these drugs. I wonder why there is such a variance in the "safe" age....
ReplyDeleteVariance in the "safe" age is probably due to a lack of research on the effects of cough and cold drugs on children.Not to be confused with the efficacy of cough and cold drugs with children.
ReplyDeletewow who knew there was so many!they need to take out all of them!
ReplyDeleteI wasn't even aware that some of the children's medicine were taken off of the shelves!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the list of medicine that are being taken out. Is great to know when you have infants around.
ReplyDeleteSo now there is NO cold medication for infants sold over the counter. They took it off the market for possible overdosing. NOW the only option for the people that cant afford a doctor and RX is to buy the older childrens meds and give to infant at smaller dose.. Will they overdose? Who knows? Why not continue to sell infant medications with a warning or better directions? They have been "Safe" for all these years. I have given them to my older 4 children with no problems, now I have an infant again and no medication...
ReplyDeleteI ve just found out when buying my older child 6yrs some calcough chesty not to give to under 6
ReplyDeleteI ve always been sensible with these types of medicines and only use when necessary .. I do understand the misuse of medicating young child as a few mths a ago i went to give my child age 3 some calprofen which states half a 2.5 ml under 3 and 5 mls over . But knowing my child is very small for his age i still only give 2.5 mls
so this is why misuse of medication accurs a weight guide should be on instructions this means i can no longer by medicines for my youngest child.
mrs s cudbertson
I have a young infant as well. She had been sick with cold after cold and there's nothing I can give her. She coughs so much she throws up. I am very upset that infant medication has been taken off shelves. She has gone back and forth to her doctor so many times I've lost count. They refuse to give her anything. What's a mother like me to do. Just let my child suffer ?
ReplyDeleteThis should be of huge help for parents of various ages.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the lovely guidance.These are the most common medicines we are groping for with little children at home.Well cold and cough is the most common ailment in children at a young age.
ReplyDeleteThat would really help.Because cold and cough is the most common in all homes and there is a need for these medicines in the first aid kit itself.New moms are hugely benefited reading your articles.
ReplyDeleteUsually try the honey and ginger herb mix to cure the cold of my child.If it is in the initial stages and therefore mild it subsides easily but if it has already reached the second or later stages then it is difficult to handle it with just herbs.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree that there should be least medication for below 5 ages children.And even if medicines administered with the guidance of the physicians.
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