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ER visits for children accidentally eating melatonin have spiked drastically: CDC (thehill.com)

submitted 9 months ago by MicroWave to c/health

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Unsupervised exposures of infants and young children to melatonin have increased substantially in recent years, landing thousands of children in the emergency room.

The number of kids aged 5 and younger who went to an emergency room for unsupervised melatonin ingestion increased 420 percent from 2009 to 2020, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

More recently, melatonin was implicated in approximately 11,000 emergency department visits among infants and young children between 2019–2022.

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[–] gibmiser 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Medicine shouldn't taste good.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Most medicine doesn't but babies happily eat it anyways. Hell, babies will drink gasoline if it can get its hand on it.

Medicine (and gasoline) should be kept away from children's view and reach.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Maybe gasoline is delicious. I haven't tried it yet but now I'm curious. I don't think I will try it, but still, now I want to know.

[–] gibmiser 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

My father says when he was young he thought it smelled good so he had a sip and about threw up. So, not a great recommendation

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

So like the opposite of durian.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Correction: Medicine (and gasoline) should be kept away from children's and zero_spelled_with_an_ecks's view and reach.