Stammer symptoms and conditions

My 5 year old daughter was on Singulair for 15 days, we just got back from the Dr. I told him that it worked great for her asthma, but the side effects were killing us. She became very irritable, and aggressive towards her friends and 3 year old brother. I did not think it was the medicine at first, but after a few days, my husband and I thought it was medicine. My MIL is a pharmacist and she even picked up on the irritability and aggression. The Dr. said he never heard of anyone complaining about side affects like this.He was very nice and quickly agreed that this was not the medicine for her. My daughter was also beginning to stammer while talking, "uh, uh, uh", before she could get anything out. My mother in law (MIL) send me this site this morning before the Dr. appt. and I sat here and cried, thinking that I continued to give my child this medicine,(even after my husband suggested that we stop). It did work great for her asthma, but we wanted our loving little girl back.

My son was 4 when he started singulair chewable tablets for children for his allergies (winter and spring) he took it for 2 months and then we started noticing that he started to stutter/ stammer. His sppech was not like before. He would also make facial expressions like he is trying to force the words out with his eyes looking up. He also became excessively sensitive and emotional. He would cry over anything. He appeared depressed. Then I decided to look into his medication. I looked at a few websites and found other parents had complained about similar side effects - then one smart parent noted that singulair chewable tablets for kids contained large doses of ASPARTAME ! It was clearly labeled on the medication by Merck but to my shock it meant that I was giving my son with each tablet the equivalent of 5 cans of diet coke worth of aspartame ! Turns out aspartame is one of of the most horrendous things to anyone. If you visit websites about the subject you will be shocked at what the popular diet soda sweetner causes. Apparently it was the culprit. I took him off the medication immediately and his speech became normal within a couple of weeks. The same smart parent noted in her posting that she/he had given their child a split adult dose of singulair - since IT DOES NOT CONTAIN ASPARTAME ! apparently they put it in the children dose as a sweetner since it is chewable.... may be worth a try since the medication was very effective with the allergy symptoms - but for me I am gonna have to try to find an alternative...