Dangerous Cold Medicines

[truthfinder9]

Many people, victims of the public education system, still believe that anything they buy or the doctor gives to them is safe, or that the Government is out there keeping them safe. Here's one of many examples of the FDA acting only after people are sickened or die. Perhaps people should learn how they get sick to begin with, and how to naturally prevent it, then they wouldn't need gallons of drugs a year.

From Green Barbarians by Ellen Sandbeck:

Some members of the American College of Chest Physicians reviewed decades' worth of studies and concluded that there is no scientific evidence whatsoever that the active ingredients in most over-the-counter cough medicines...have any effect at all on coughs. The doctors did find, however, that over-the-counter cough medicines have a very strong placebo effect.

In 2007, the CDC announced that over a two-year period, fifteen hundred toddlers and babies were treated in emergency rooms because of bad reactions to cold or cough medicine; three of these infants died...the pharmaceutical industry voluntarily withdrew all "infant" cough medications from the market. Also in 2007, the FDA warned parents that cough and cold medicines should never be given to children under the age of two, and advised against giving them to children under age of six.

[CodeToad]

“above a minimum age”

Not always. Internal organ size and function is a primary factor in determining doseage, which is why age is also a factor.

[corkoman]

Enough studies showed it dangers to convince the FDA. Or maybe it was the dead kids. That’s usually when the FDA belatedly steps in.

Silly wagging tongue.