Cough and Cold Remedies Can Kill Your Infant

re: Cough and Cold Remedies Can Kill Your Infant

TandTsmom — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 04:54:44 GMT

I joined this site just to comment on this article. I'm a mother of two and if I had read this article a couple of years ago, I could have possibly made a decision to kill my son when he was a 3 month old by making a decision of not giving him tylenol when his fever was 103 and steadily going up. My now 3 month old daughter has a fever of 100.5 from her shots today, which may not be as big of a problem as my son's was, but if you're not going to recommend over the counter drugs to mothers like me who are simply trying to find out how to help our children, then maybe you should be a little more detailed as to what we should do for our children in these situations. Some mothers may listen to you and fear drugs because of your article. Fevers like my son's can cause brain damage and kill infants. So, while I understand your article, I'm angry that you aren't detailed enough on alternatives to drugs for emergency situations. Some mothers may read you article and as their child's fever gets worse, they make the decision not to use a drug to help their child...which could result in death for their baby.

re: Cough and Cold Remedies Can Kill Your Infant

zubi — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 03:42:44 GMT

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re: Cough and Cold Remedies Can Kill Your Infant

Russ Bianchi — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 04:57:10 GMT

In addition to infant or child cough and cold products, AVOID infant rehydration brands, that are laced with very harmful calorie free sweeteners like sucralose, aspartame, asulfame potasium, or saccharin, and/or polyol sweeteners which are cancer causing and dirreaha inducing, like sorbitol, glucerol/glycerin, polydextrose, maltitol, mannitol, lactitol, erythertol, etc.

re: Cough and Cold Remedies Can Kill Your Infant

PepperR23 — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 20:54:48 GMT

This is terribly upsetting. I used to work in a Pediatric office and every friday, all of us (doctors, nurses, and office staff were treated to a fully catered lunch. This was of course, offered by the pharmaceutical reps, who also stocked free samples of their drugs to hand out to our patients parents. You can well imagine the gratitude of the parents, especially those who could not afford these medicines. I truly wonder how a parent can be truly educated about the dangers of overmedicating these precious little ones, when they are bombarded with so many messages which makes them feel as if they aren't parenting correctly if they don't have a fully stocked medicine cabinet to deal withany and all maladies.

re: Cough and Cold Remedies Can Kill Your Infant

jennifer howard — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 20:03:34 GMT

Oh my gosh! I have a two month old and have been stupid enough to give him very small doses of infant tylenol. I wish I had read this prior. I try not to introduce anything synthetic or harmful into his system and will never give him OTC medicine again if I can get by without it. And I do have to say that the Tylenol did not help ease his pain at all.

re: Cough and Cold Remedies Can Kill Your Infant

mmc88121 — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 18:28:10 GMT

Unfortunetly many doctors will recommend cough or cold medications for children to help relieve the parents concern. Especially with all the friends & neighbors telling them they need to do something for the childs cold symptoms.

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