Young Children and Cold Medicines - New Findings
Cold and flu season is upon us. When we're unlucky
enough to come down with something, it's almost second nature to reach a
multi-symptom cold medicine. New findings show that, when it comes to
children, parents should think twice before giving such medications to their
children.
Last year, the Center for Disease
Control (CDC) announced
that eading manufacturers of pediatric cough and cold medicines are adding a
warning to their products' labels, "Don't use over-the-counter pediatric
cough and cold medicines in children younger than 4." FDA's Center
for Drug Evaluation and Research Janet Woodcock, MD, says FDA supports the
label "change" and drug manufacturers are doing this voluntarily.
The New York
Times
recently reported results of a new Centers for Disease Control (CDC) study
on unintentional medication overdoses in children which "indicates 8
percent of emergency room visits and 14 percent of hospitalizations were caused
by parents accidentally overdosing their children."
The
study, which looks at causes for emergency room visits, estimates that 70,000
children under 18 years of age visit emergency rooms annually suffering from
unintentional medication overdoses causing adverse drug events. More
importantly, 75 percent of the overdoses occurred in children under age 5.
CDC's
web page on child medication safety further indicates that the number
one cause of emergency room visits due to adverse drug events in young
children under the age of 5 is the unsupervised consumption of medicines.
CDC also notes, according to WebMD, that 7,000 children under 11 go to
emergency rooms each year after taking cough and cold medicines. Roughly
two-thirds of those adverse drug events occurred after children consumed
medication while unsupervised.
CDC
recommends the following guidelines when dispensing medications to children:
- Always recap and store
medicines out of the reach and out of sight of children.
- Carefully administer
medicines as directed on the label or as instructed by a physician or
pharmacist.
- Use prescription and
over-the-counter medicines only when needed.
Tips for parents:
- Children should never be
left alone with any medicines. If you are giving or taking
medicine and you need to do something else, such as answer the phone, take
the medicine with you.
- Do not leave medicines
out after using them. Store medicines in lockable medicine cabinets or
other childproof cabinets out of reach of young children.
- Check to make sure
medicines you purchase for your child are in child-resistant packaging
that you know how to open and close properly.
- Place the
The Consumer Healthcare Products Association would add to this:
- Do not give medicine
intended only for adults to a child.
- Do not use two medicines
at the same time which contain the same ingredients.
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