Experts say parents might think of melatonin as a vitamin, but she says it really belongs in the medicine cabinet.
The CDC urged parents to look for signs of a rare hepatitis outbreak in children in a new alert. Here's what you should know.that what's on the label may not match what's actually in the bottle, and some countries have banned the sale of over-the-counter melatonin.Many people can tolerate even relatively large doses of melatonin without significant harm, experts say. But there is no antidote for an overdose.
In about 83% of those calls, the children did not show any symptoms. But other children endured vomiting, had altered breathing or showed other symptoms. Over the 10 years studied, more than 4,000 kids were hospitalized, five needed to be put on machines to help them breathe, and two - both younger than 2 - died.