Warning: US Deadly To Your Children
Is this coordinated: FDA votes to ban cold medicine to children under 6? They claim that reasons being are that they are afraid that parents are not giving the corect dosage or is not being used as directed.
I am very suspicious of this, not to mention infuriated. This desicion has come on the heels of Bush vetoing healthcare for children, as on the eve of the country's debate concerning health care. What are parents to do who are already strapped for time and cash - run to the doctor for every sniffle...go to vodoo witchdotors? Our children are in danger.
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I think that you concerns are well founded. What ARE parents to do when their little ones are sick. Scary!
I don't agree with your worry over the FDA committee suggesting that children under 6 not take cold medicine. I think its been a long time coming. Our society is ridiculously over-medicated due to the pharmacuetical industry's grip over our government and this country as a whole.
There is something called an immune systems, and although I am for mandatory immunizations, I am against taking medication after "every sniffle." One important part of the early stages of childhood, along with mental and emotional development, involves building a strong immune system.
The way things are going with the healthcare debate in this country, our kids are gonna need all the immune system they can get.
I appreciate that comment Hector, and I couldn't agree w/ you more.
Although there is no cure for the common cold, common cold medication's purpose is to relieve the symptoms as the body fights it off.
My worry here is a simple cold could develop into a more serious condition if the symptoms such as a nasal drip is not treated. A post-nasal drip could congest the lungs further allowing a common cold to develop into a serious condition in the lungs. By the same fear the FDA tells us of over-medicating or mis-medicating children by parents, those same parents can now misdiagnose symptoms as a 'sniffle' when in fact it's a more serious conditions. And with healthcare being as elusive and expensive as it is now, I am afraid there may be more serious conditions or fatalities that could have been avoided.
I thought the complaint against the cold medicine was that it doesn't work for young children. If it doesn't work, what's the point in using it?
How about U.S. bombs in Iraq dangerous for children's health. We just killed a bunch of Iraqi kids over the weekend, I believe.
It relieves cold symptoms, which also may contribute to a worse condition.
And, well there you have it...we are more worried about cold medication not being the cure to common cold than killing innocent children in Iraq.