More Bad News About Cold Medicine for Children



Almost 7,000 children ended up at hospital emergency rooms each year, due to adverse reactions to cold and cough medicines, according to a report out on Jan. 28.



As reported on Aol.com, almost 2/3 of the kids were unsupervised at the time, but that still leaves 1/3 of kids who were given proper doses by their parents. More than three-quarters of the cases involved kids ages 2 to 5, according to the CDC.



This comes on top of recent warnings not to give children ages 2 and under any type of cold or cough medicine. This study looked at children from 2- 11.