SINGULAIR and Your Child
Explore the sections below to find out how you can help your child get relief from allergy symptoms.
How SINGULAIR can help your child
Find out how SINGULAIR can help relieve your child's allergies.
Once-a-day SINGULAIR for kids
See why SINGULAIR is made with kids in mind.
Possible side effects
Learn more about possible side effects.
Allergies and children
Discover how you can help recognize and manage your child's allergy symptoms.
Ask your child's doctor about SINGULAIR
Get questions to ask your child's doctor to find out if SINGULAIR is right for your child.
SINGULAIR is a prescription medicine approved for relief of symptoms of indoor and outdoor allergies (outdoor allergies in adults and children as young as 2 years and indoor allergies in adults and children as young as 6 months).
IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION
- Side effects vary by age and may include headache, ear infection, sore throat, and upper respiratory infection. Behavior and mood-related changes have been reported, including agitation, aggression or anger, bad or vivid dreams, depression, anxiety, hallucinations (seeing things that are not there), irritability, restlessness, sleepwalking, suicidal thoughts and actions (including suicide), trembling, and trouble sleeping. Tell the doctor if you have, or your child has, these or any other side effects while taking SINGULAIR.
- SINGULAIR should not be taken by people who are sensitive to any of its ingredients.
- Parents or guardians of a phenylketonuric child: Note that cherry chewable tablets contain phenylalanine, a component of aspartame.
You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch, or call 1-800-FDA-1088.
Please read the Patient Information and discuss it with your doctor. The physician Prescribing Information also is available.
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