Nearly half of American parents give their children melatonin to sleep — despite expert warnings

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. And since it’s frequently administered in candy-like gummy form or in a chewable flavored tablet, children are prone to overdosing.

Pediatric melatonin ingestions reported to U.S. poison control centers increased by 530 percent between 2012–2021,Around 84 percent of the kids from those reports did not present symptoms. However, others had trouble breathing or cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, or central nervous system symptoms.Over the last 10 years, 4,000 kids were hospitalized, five needed the help of a machine to breathe, and two under the age of 2 died.

Fathers were more likely than mothers to dose their child under 13 and parents between the ages of 25 to 34 were the most likely age group to give their child under 13 the supplement.

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