Singulair and baseball bat

Our normally mild-mannered 7-year-old son has only been on Singulair for a few days, and we noticed immediate behavioral changes including acting out, aggressive behavior, and he even went so far as to hit another child with a baseball bat at baseball practice last night! Because we had also experienced behavioral side effects with Zyrtec (aggressiveness, etc.), we were particularly in tune with the possiblity that sudden changes of this type might be attributable to the medications. We had thought that switching him to the Singulair would help with the allergies and NOT have the behavioral side effects that we had experienced with the Zyrtec, but found instead that it was even worse! I think we're going to stay off all drugs and just buy extra kleenex for allergies!

I have a 4 year old step son, that has been on Singulair since he was 18 months old. Before his mother and I had gotten married she had noticed that his moods were not the same, his sleeping habits had changed, to where he would be wide awake and wired to passing out like a drunk would. He would make comments like he was stupid, he was worthless, he was dumb. He would tell you he loved you one minute and the next he would say that he hated you and everyone else in the room. He would hit himself everywhere on his body (including hitting himself and other men in the family jewels) and hittiing women in the same area. From the time that he started taking Singulair he weighed around 28.12 pounds on 4-4-03 and shot to 32.01 pounds 24 days later on 4-28-03, and with in almost a year he shot to 50 pounds at 37 inches tall on 1-30-04. By 2-16-05 at the age of 4 he weight 70 pounds at 41 and 1/4 inches tall. He would bruise very easy, and from him playing in the yard and trying to play sports like he would see on tv he would come back in looking like someone had taking his plastic baseball bat and beat every inch of color out of him. At many times when his mother would take him back to the Doctor, which the doctor himself had never seen my step son and a nurse practitioner who saw him every time and my wife would tell them that he was acting out and the effects that were coming out in him, and the she would raise hell with my wife because she would take my step son off the meds that she would perscribe him. I have gotten a copy of my step son med records from this Doctor's office and have found out that they did make a note in his charts that my wife told them about the effects and they never tried to take him off the Singulair or even looked into the meds. And the Doctor would sign off on everything that his office would send out to my wife in the mail. (Which tells me one that he was not reading the charts that was put in front of him or that he wanted the KICK BACKS that Merck pay Doctors who prescribe Merck Products more then he cares about what these meds are doing to Children and Adults) My step son had an appointment with this Doctor on 6-15-2005 which by this time my wife and I had decided that this Doctor Office had done enough damage to her son that we would never take him back there again, and they can not understand why we will not bring him back there. I started doing a lot of research on this med and have found out that Singulair had killed 2 children under the age of 5. Snice then I have called Merck and asked them if they knew what their product was doing to children and adults. And they acted like my step son was the only one that was suffering from these side effects and that they did not care. I have talked to a lawyer and the lawyer himself stated that my step son would have to die before there could be a lawsuit put against Merck. It seems like we are fighting a losing battle. I have contacted the FDA, and made a report about this med and have sent them the info on what I have found and other posting that I have found on the internet and a copy of my step son med charts. I am starting as of 6-30-2005 to collect names and info of others who have had the same effects that Singulair has done to them or their children, so we can put a stop to what these Doctors are doing to our children and to us. I plan on taking all the info that I collect to the FDA and to another Lawyer that has told me that if I can get enough Names of people that have a copy of their med charts and the charts of their children and can prove that these effects did happen then he would be more then happy to file papers in Court against Merck, and even the FDA if the FDA did not pull Singulair after I have sent all the info that I get before coming to him. Even if the FDA calls for a recall of this very dangerous med, then we would still file papers against Merck and the FDA for not pulling this sooner. Thank You for reading this and please if you can help so we can get this off the market please contact me.
Brian ******