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.
Yes, but cold meds only treat symptoms. Why is he staying so sick?
The reason the FDA did what they did was because some parents weren't following the directions and caused adverse reactions in their children and in some cases, death. These medicines work just fine if the directions are followed. We continued to use these medicines despite their warning because it was the only way to give our kids some relief so they could get the sleep they needed to get better. The FDA is a behemoth of bureaucracy that is mostly interested in CYA -- just another government agency trying to save us from ourselves.