What is the evidence for the safety and efficacy of over-the-counter cough and cold preparations for children younger than six years of age?

Paediatrics and Child Health

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 125-127

  Dolansky, Gillian ^a   Rieder, Michael ^a,b  

^a WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; ANTITUSSIVE AGENT; BROMPHENIRAMINE; CHLORPHENIRAMINE; DECONGESTIVE AGENT; DEXTROMETHORPHAN; DEXTROMETHORPHAN PLUS DIPHENHYDRAMINE; DIPHENHYDRAMINE; EXPECTORANT AGENT; GUAIFENESIN; NON PRESCRIPTION DRUG; PHENYLEPHRINE; PHENYLPROPANOLAMINE; PSEUDOEPHEDRINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANOREXIA; ANXIETY; APNEA; ATAXIA; BLURRED VISION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BULLOUS MASTOCYTOSIS; CARDIOMYOPATHY; COMMON COLD; CONSTIPATION; COUGHING; DEPRESSION; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; DROWSINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRY EYE; DYSTONIA; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXCITABILITY; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HALLUCINATION; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART PALPITATION; HEMORRHAGIC STROKE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INSOMNIA; IRRITABILITY; LETHARGY; MASTOCYTOSIS; NAUSEA; PARADOXIC EXCITABILITY; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; RESPIRATORY ATAXIA; RESTLESSNESS; SEDATION; SEIZURE; SEROTONIN SYNDROME; SHORT SURVEY; SIDE EFFECT; STROKE; TACHYCARDIA; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREMOR; VOMITING; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 41149136173     PISSN: 12057088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pch/13.2.125     Document Type: Short Survey

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