The fear of the day.

Moonliner · 10-17-2007, 11:54 AM

It's Wednesday October seventeenth. Your fear of the day, direct from a banner headline on CNN.com is:

Kids over the counter cold and cough medicines.

Over the last 37 Years an average of 2 infants per year have died as a result of taking cough medicine. Out of Millions of doses per year.

Have these meds done no good at all? Sure they don't cure the colds but they do treat the symptoms allowing for more rest and a quicker recovery time. Now that these meds are being removed can we expect more colds to progress into walking pneumonia or other complications? How many parents will start giving their kids adult cold meds (you know some will) and what effect will that have?

People die from milk and peanut allergies every year but we don't ban these products? Why not? Because a very small percentage of people having a sever allergic reaction does not mean a product is unsafe.

Perhaps a more reasonable course of action would be to educate parents that you don't dose the kid up at the first sign up a sniffle. As our pediatrician told us "Fever is your friend" up to a point.

10-17-2007, 11:54 AM	#11
Moonliner 8/30/14 - Disneyland -10k or Bust. Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 9,022	It's Wednesday October seventeenth. Your fear of the day, direct from a banner headline on CNN.com is: Kids over the counter cold and cough medicines. Over the last 37 Years an average of 2 infants per year have died as a result of taking cough medicine. Out of Millions of doses per year. Have these meds done no good at all? Sure they don't cure the colds but they do treat the symptoms allowing for more rest and a quicker recovery time. Now that these meds are being removed can we expect more colds to progress into walking pneumonia or other complications? How many parents will start giving their kids adult cold meds (you know some will) and what effect will that have? People die from milk and peanut allergies every year but we don't ban these products? Why not? Because a very small percentage of people having a sever allergic reaction does not mean a product is unsafe. Perhaps a more reasonable course of action would be to educate parents that you don't dose the kid up at the first sign up a sniffle. As our pediatrician told us "Fever is your friend" up to a point. __________________ - Taking it one step at a time.
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