Once-a-day SINGULAIR FOR KIDS
With SINGULAIR, you may be able to do more to help keep your child’s asthma symptoms under control. Even though you can control some of your child’s environment—your home, your car, maybe even a classroom—your child cannot always avoid what’s in the air. SINGULAIR is an asthma medication for children that works round-the-clock to help prevent asthma symptoms before they start.
SINGULAIR:
- Helps prevent asthma symptoms for a full 24 hours
- Helps your child breathe a little easier while doing the things he or she likes to do
- Is a once-a-day prescription pill that is easy to take
- Helps your child need a fast-acting inhaler less often
- Is steroid free
- Is approved to relieve a range of indoor and outdoor allergy symptoms
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 these or any other side effects while taking SINGULAIR
Made with kids in mind, SINGULAIR comes in 4 easy-to-take forms.
- A 4-mg oral granules packet (for children 12–23 months old)
- A 4-mg cherry chewable tablet (for children 2–5 years old)
- A 5-mg cherry chewable tablet (for children 6–14 years old)
- A 10-mg tablet that you swallow whole (for adults and adolescents 15 years and older)
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SINGULAIR is a prescription medicine approved to help control symptoms of asthma in adults and children 12 months and older.
IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION
- SINGULAIR is not a rescue medication. Always carry a prescribed rescue inhaler for emergencies or sudden symptoms. If your or your child’s asthma symptoms get worse or there is a need to increase the use of fast-acting medicines, call the doctor at once.
- 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.
SINGULAIR is a registered trademark of Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc.20852779(1)-02/10-SNG











