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Warning to Parents: Do NOT Give Children Under 2 over-the-counter, multisymptom cold medicines

January 17, 2008 by editor  (View Source

(baltsun) Last fall, the Food and Drug Administration safety experts recommended a ban on over-the-counter, multisymptom cold medicines for children ages 6 years or younger. Today, the FDA plans to announce the government's first official ruling on the issue: Don't give the drugs to children younger than 2. And it comes now because the FDA is worried that parents haven't gotten that message despite all the publicity last fall.


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