Children's Deaths Lead To FDA Hearing On - Page 2

**Nivra ha-Rishon** · 10-18-2007, 08:21 PM

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I wonder how much they gave him.

Curious about that myself.

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"There's no evidence that they actually work"

LOL

10-18-2007, 09:12 PM

I didn't realize we had duplicate threads. I merged them and cleaned it up a bit.

**Kaiserin** · 10-18-2007, 09:18 PM

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Over the past two years, 1,500 babies and toddlers have wound up in emergency rooms after having a bad reaction to cold medicines, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Then perhaps it's use in infants should be reevaluated.

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"There's no evidence that they actually work"

For the directed usage, this is actually more or less true, it's not anymore effective than a placebo dose in most studies.

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However, when separated by treatment group, no significant differences were found for any of the outcome measures when comparing the effects of DPH, DM, and PL

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/.../full/114/1/e85

**Monoliath** · 10-18-2007, 09:52 PM

To the O.P. you've posted a dupe, I already posted a full article on this story...why is this double posted on the front page of the site?

10-18-2007, 10:08 PM

Sorry Mono, but he beat you to it, so I kept his post when I merged the threads. :P

**Monoliath** · 10-18-2007, 10:10 PM

Ok, I was just wondering what in the hell had happened!!

Right on

ZachShalack · 10-19-2007, 02:39 AM

Well doctors are people too. 70 cases isn't really enough to base a suggestion on. In my oppinion of course.

The Onyxmizer · 10-19-2007, 05:55 PM

I think this is going to be the final straw for the FDA to pull DXM. Now they could just add it to the warning due to the apparent infrequency, but this still doesn't look god for us.

STOCK PILE!

drkkain · 10-23-2007, 04:18 PM

Just think of the good side to it, robitussin/dxm ingredient containing products will be on major sale for a while.

Psychotic Break · 10-23-2007, 06:28 PM

Why would you give your infant cough medicine anyway? It's not good for you, it's only supposed to lessen the symptoms although the cold is still there.

An infant is not even going to remember that cold in a few months, why do they need to be taking medicine? It's always seemed to me that giving babies medicine when it isn't absolutely necessary was a bad idea.