My son has been on Singulair for asthma for a year and we have seen his behavior get worse and worse. He has gone from a happy, well mannered, polite, sweet little boy to a child who has violent outbursts, is volatile, unpredictable with other children and is fearful of everything! We have talked and talked to his MD, we have been told to redirect him, give him more control by giving him more choices, engage him in more activities, less activities, and on and on. NOTHING has worked and we feel SO STUPID! We never thought to look at his medications. I saw his MD as a child and still see him now (he is a family MD) and he has seen my son since the day he was born, we trusted him with his medications. We have stopped his medication and are hoping everything will return to the little boy we knew his first 3 years of life.
* * DO NOT GIVE THIS MEDICATION TO YOUR CHILD! * *
The FDA needs to recall this medication! It breaks our hearts to think about how much heartache my son has been through when it was possibly a medication that caused such a drastic, dramatic and complete change in his behavior. We read this tonight after hearing the suicidal thought warning for adults and it was reading our life. We hope he gets better over the next few weeks. How can this happen???????