Want to avoid an ER visit? Don't give kids cold medications.

If listening to the evening news and your pediatrician are not enough for you to stop giving your kids over the counter cold and cough medications, how about avoiding an ER visit? Will that do it? MSNBC reported yesterday that the CDC announced that 7000 kids a year were seen in ERs due to overdoses from over the counter cold and cough medications. The article reported that 2/3 of the cases were from kids getting into the medication unsupervised but the remaining 1/3 were in kids given the medication as directed. The authors of the study, just published online in the journal Pediatrics, conclu...