[TennesseeGirl]

"The researchers note that although comparative efficacy data meeting their minimal criteria were available for approximately half of all newly approved NMEs, they did not assess the extent to which the publicly available data are informative enough to provide a basis for prescribing and coverage decisions."

[Eva]

I’ve been questioning the FDA move to advise against giving toddlers triaminic or other cold medicines. My 2 1/2 year old grandson just started day care and has been sick almost since the day he started. The cold gets so bad that it ends up in his ears and now even his eyes. If you don’t give the kids a little cold medicine, they just keep getting sicker and they don’t get any sleep, the parents don’t get any sleep and it creates a vicious cycle. Now on top of it, he has pink eye and is constipated and miserable. He won’t eat, he doesn’t sleep and and now he is refusing liquid because he knows that they put the medicine in the juice or water.

The FDA says no cold medicine.

[algernonpj]

Just talk to people who have asthma and were once well controlled using CFC inhalers. The replacement HFA inhalers, mandated to 'save the ozone hole', are an inferior product that were never properly tested.

Here is an FDA instruction for use of HFA inhalers, to those who are taking these medications because of difficulty breathing:

"It is important to remember that it is the deep breath that you take with each puff that gets the medication into your lungs, not the force of the spray. "