Advisers Conclude Cough, Cold Medicines Don’t Work In Young Children

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(October 19, 2007)--Federal health advisers are recommending that cold and cough medicines not be used in children younger than six.

They've concluded that those medicines don't work in young children.

The outside experts are telling the Food and Drug Administration that the over-the-counter medicines should be studied some more.

Earlier Friday an American Academy of Pediatrics official called for cold and cough medicine labels to say they don't work in children under age six and may actually be dangerous.

Another expert pointed out that the labels do tell parents to "ask a doctor" before giving the medications to children.

The drug industry has said the remedies do work and are safe if used as directed.

But the drug companies seem to agree that parents need more information to prevent rare, but fatal, overdoses.

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