SINGULAIR and Your Child: Ask your child's doctor about SINGULAIR
If your child has allergies, his or her doctor is an important source of information. Print and take the following questions to your child's next doctor appointment to help start the conversation:
- What can I do to relieve my child's allergy symptoms?
- Do all allergy medicines work the same way?
- Could SINGULAIR be right for my child?
- Which allergy symptoms does SINGULAIR help relieve?
- Will SINGULAIR make my child drowsy?
Ask your child's doctor about SINGULAIR—an allergy medicine that works differently by blocking leukotrienes.
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
- SINGULAIR may cause serious side effects. Behavior and mood-related changes have been reported: agitation including aggressive behavior or hostility, bad or vivid dreams, depression, disorientation (confusion), feeling anxious, hallucinations (seeing or hearing things that are not really there), irritability, restlessness, sleepwalking, suicidal thoughts and actions (including suicide), tremor, and trouble sleeping. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you have any of these symptoms while taking SINGULAIR.
- The most common side effects with SINGULAIR include upper respiratory infection, fever, headache, sore throat, cough, stomach pain, diarrhea, earache or ear infection, flu, runny nose, and sinus infection.
- Parents or guardians of a child with phenylketonuria: Note that cherry chewable tablets contain phenylalanine, a component of aspartame.
- SINGULAIR should not be taken by people who are sensitive to any of its ingredients.
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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