Singulair Cough Medicine for Kids, Cough Suppressant, Today Is Christmas, Mucinex, Delsym

Posted over a year ago

My son has been on Singulair chewables and albuterol neb treatments 3X per day for about three weeks. He is 3 years old and could not shake a cough he got well before Thanksgiving. He still has the cough and today is Christmas. We almost went to the emergency room today because we stopped the nebulizer a week ago and everything has now come back again (and worse it seems). It's like we are starting over. As far as the aggression: we first thought it was the Albuterol that was making him crazy and aggressive (hitting, shouting 'I don't love you', refusing to nap at daycare), but now we realize it is more likely the Singulair. ... more »

Here is my thing now: I thoroughly believe in regular cough medicine, cough suppressant, robitussin, mucinex, delsym. These are the over-the-counter type of syrups and drugs we all grew up on and they worked for us!!!! Did you have even ONE friend as a kid who was on the sort of drug lineup our kids are on these days? This cough that my son can't shake right now is a result of the ONLY time his whole life that I did not give him cough medicine at onset because the pediatricians are now saying, "positively no cough medicine for kids under 6". I think probably some people overdosed their kids on it, they had heart attacks, and now this is the response (no cough medicine for kids under 6). Again, this cough my son has now is the only time I did not give him cough medicine in the beginning and now look what has happened. They are talking Asthma possibly b/c he has acute brochospasm. And like everyone else is saying, he is itchy and acting out due to the Singulair too! What a freakin' mess.

I am going back to the old school way of treating cough and cold. Does anyone agree? Do I need to move to Florida or California? Philly is cold . . .

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Bentz1ac - My daugher is 27 months old and has had a tough time with constipation. However while on formula with no cows milk the belly aches seemed to quit. Then came Milk and solids , as you see it is 4:00 a.m and we are up with our daughter who now takes .8 grams of marilax nightly 3 weeks ago they placed her on nasonex due to allergies. 1 1/2 weeks ago they placed her on singular chewables because we did not get a big difference with the nasonex. She wakes up nightly crying and moving naps have been slim to none and really fighting sleep. I can;t tell if she is having leg cramps or belly cramps. help .. I know how miserable it is when she is constipated and with the allergies we have to keep under control she has already has 2 sets of eart tubes and adneoids out at 2 . but what do we do what is her waking fits for and yes puffy eyes. all i want is my baby to be well and get good nights of sleep and feel good .

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Zsmom - PLEASE REPORT ADVERSE REACTIONS TO SINGULAIR TO THE FDA: https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/medwatch/medwatch-online.htm Adverse Event Reports are used by the FDA to identify and evaluate safety issues with medications. Adverse event reporting by consumers and medical professionals led to the identification of hostility and sleepwalking as side effects of Singulair, and the addition to Singulair's label (prescribing information) of a precaution about neuropsychiatric side effects. The FDA continues to investigate Singulair. The FDA also uses Adverse Event Reports to re-define the risk-benefit ratio of medications. Consumers and medical professionals should continue to report ALL adverse reactions to Singulair - even those already listed on Singulair's label. The FDA needs to know how many children have suffered from this drug. Visit www.parentsforsafety.org for more information about Singulair and its side effects.

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Bjohn - The aggression may very well be from the Singular, it takes time for the body to normalize to the medication. However, if your son is experiencing a persistent cough, Albuterol treatments are not going to help it and neither will the Singular. Alb is only for an asthma attack, a cough is not an attack, an attack is wheezing and the inability to breathe (which would make it impossible to cough!). If your doc is suspecting asthma, your son should be on Flovent to mend over the lungs. Most peds know little about how to control asthma. Ask for a referral to a pediatric pulminologist or allergist. They will know better how to handle this. I have 3 children, all with asthma. They all have a different type. My oldest is only sport induced and only when hayfever season is upon us. My middle is an inflammatory asthmatic (he only has asthma when sick and it shows up with coughs that don't go away and turn into pneumonia, this sounds like your son), my youngest is a reactionary asthmatic with a blood condition that makes her body see histamine as infection. When her allergies kick in(and we have no way to know what she is allergic too. It is a mold, but there are over 200 molds, yet they only have tests for the 10 most common), her fever skyrockets and throws her into an asthma attack. For all of you that are balking at Singular, if this is your situation and you take your child off the drug, you are risking their life. Without this drug, my daughter would be dead right now. I can be sure of it after 3 ICU stays where she was on life support as they were trying to get the histamine out of her system for weeks, all episodes under the age of three. Singular blocks histamine formation. Lots of docs like to prescribe it for asthma related to allergies because it keeps people breathing. I know about the side effects. My daughter has experienced them and her brothers call the drug her "crazy pill." But we all agree we would rather have her a bit crazy than dead. As parents, we all have to weigh risks to benefits with these drugs, but don't just take your child off of anything because you think it is bad. Talk to your doc and get alternatives. Try things until you get a good combo and definitely get referred off to a specialist. This is an extremely tricky condition, and as you can see from my own children, there are many different types of asthma. None of my kids are on the same meds to control their asthma. The oldest is on Flonase and Flovent and Claritan-D during hayfever season; my middle is on nothing unless he gets a cold or flu that will not go away, and then it is Flovent until it clears; my youngest is on Flovent and Singular daily.

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Buton6 - God, you complain that your kids are on too many drugs yet you are the parent that allows doctors to prescribe them all to your child. Its time you took control of your own and your family health. I am so sick of doctors all they do is push drugs yet never find the cause of ones problem. It's hit or miss at best. Yes of course there are lifesaving drugs, but for many many especially Chronic things, we shoot look at our environment and what we put inside our bodies. If you have asthma, maybe its the store bought pasteurized milk that causes excessive fluid build up, maybe its the formula that is made in China and you don't even know it, maybe you should try RAW Goat milk if your child doesn't tolerate formula. 1 of my kids is Autistic, doctors gave me no hope and no answers just drugs, since then I've learned a whole lot, my youngest had only vaccinations until 6th month of life, that is when I realized a lot of them are not needed. Well she's 3 now, she's only been sick once for 1 day with strep throat, whatever she had passed onto our family, my middle child 2 and oldest 3 days, I was sick for 4-5 with my wife. If it because she wasn't vaccinated fully, I don't know. We drink Raw milk and none of my kids ever had ear infections, they never even had antibiotics. My son stopped talking and turned autistic after vaccinations. SO NO DOCTORS are not the answer it starts with you.

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Propsguy - buton6, you are soooo right! too many drugs and especially giving them to young children???? what is wrong with our culture. every time a kid has a runny nose or an ear infection, parents run off to the doctor and the kid ends up on a battery of meds. then when the meds make him aggressive, someone will be happy to diagnose a psychiatric disorder and put him on those meds. does anybody make the connection between skyrocketing rates of autism and the vaccines and toxins out there? how about the 380 million eggs being recalled? what's the government's answer? let's vaccinate the chickens (so they can get autism too)! how about stopping the practices that lead to salmonella in the first place? how about having clean, fresh, healthy decentralized food? how about breathing clean air and drinking clean water?. make sure your child eats only real good food (nothing packaged or processed), drinks filtered water and raw milk, eats only grass fed meat and farm fresh eggs (from a real farm where you know the farmer and you know that his own kids eat those very eggs). then you can get rid of the drugs. remember that doctors are no longer the trusted guardians of our health. they are simply sales distributors for drug companies. BTW, how's your autistic son? has a good diet helped him?

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