Panel: Kids shouldn't use cold medicines

[Ouchyfish]

Panel: Kids shouldn't use cold medicines By ANDREW BRIDGES, Associated Press Writer
15 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - The medicines long used by parents to treat their children's coughs and colds don't work and shouldn't be used in those younger than 6, federal health advisers recommended Friday.

The over-the-counter medicines should be studied further, even after decades in which children have received billions of doses a year, the outside experts told the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA isn't required to follow the advice of its panels of outside experts but does so most of the time.

"The data that we have now is they don't seem to work," said Sean Hennessy, a University of Pennsylvania epidemiologist, one of the FDA experts gathered to examine the medicines sold to treat common cold symptoms. The recommendation applies to medicines containing one or more of the following ingredients: decongestants, antihistamines and antitussives. It doesn't apply to expectorants, though many of the medicines also contain that ingredient.

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As a side note, thanks a FUCKING lot to the assholes cooking up drugs in their houses. Thanks to them fucktards my cold medicine no longer works. Dayquil used to fucking rock when a cold was kicking my asss. Now it's neutered!

[Harrison]

That shit didn't work long before they took the common component for meth out.

[Narrock]

Benadryl works

[Ganzo]

benadryl makes my daughter cough

[Harrison]

Benadryl fucks me up harder than most illegal drugs. I am affected in some odd way by antihistamines and other cold medicines. Nasal decongestants will incapacitate me, literally. I will be stuck laying down and incapable of standing for 8 hours or more.