IN THE NEWS - Before You Give Your Baby or Toddler Cold or Cough Medicine, Read This
In time for this winter cold season, the US Center of Disease Control and Prevention advises parents to NOT GIVE cold medicine or cough medicine to babies or toddlers under the age of two. They said that it could do more harm than good due to complications that these medicines may cause. According to CNN.com article, "More than 1,500 toddlers and babies wound up in emergency rooms over a two-year period and three died because of bad reactions to cold or cough medicine..."
See the complete article on CNN.com:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/01/11/cold.medicine.infants.ap/index.html
As painful as it is to watch our babies suffer with their little stuffy noses and their coughing, the US CDC suggests just "fluids, hugs and time."
3 comments:
I fill my bathroom with steam using the hot shower water and then take my baby into the bathroom for about 5 minutes. It really clears up his stuffy nose right away!
First colds are so tough! I was always so helpless when my baby gets a cold! I hate watching her not able to sleep with her stuffy nose and I can hear her feeling miserable! I hate it!
I also heard about a bad stomach going around all over NE! Wash those hands!!
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