The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) informed healthcare professionals and patients alike of their findings regarding the possible links between the use of Singulair and changes in mood and behavior. Their concerns pertain to suicidal thinking, changed behavior and indeed suicide.
Merck, the manufacturer of Singulair, is stressing that this warning is based on a small number of studies. (Still cause for concern, I'd say). Singulair is a leukotriene receptor antagonist. It is used to prevent exercise-induced asthma and to treat asthma and the symptoms of allergic rhinitis.
Singulair Investigation
Kate and David Miller say their son Cody starting taking Singulair last summer, and in the coming days his attitude completely changed....
Merck’s Singulair likely to see prescription drop-off only in high ...
"Both my kids are on Singulair - and I’m not going to take them off it,” said Dr Lawrence Ciesemier, an allergist and immunologist who practices Kirksville, ...
Saturday sightings are unusual anyway. Would love to see Saturday as a day where nannies would just post their horror stories. I was a nanny 11 years ago in LA for 4 years and every nanny I knew had a story.
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