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How to Keep Cough and Cold Medicines Out of Young Childrens Hands

Posted on October 07, 2008

The instructions on cough and cold medicines will soon tell parents not to use the products on children younger than 4, a trade group said today. The American Academy of Pediatrics has said there s no evidence that cold medicine works for kids under 6 and can have side effects. What s more, young tykes have a knack for getting their hands on the medicine bottle when their parents backs are turned. The majority of the 6,000 kids a year under age 6 who wind up in the emergency room because of cough and cold medicines are there because of unsupervised ingestions, a recent study the j...

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