Is Your Child Taking More Than One Medicine? Make Sure You Know The Active Ingredients

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Know Active Ingredients in Children's Meds

03/12/2013 10:00 AM EDT

If your child is sneezing up a storm, it must be allergy season once more. And if your child is taking more than one medication at the same time, there could be dangerous health consequences if those medicines have the same active ingredient.

The active ingredient makes the medication effective but the same ingredient may be in combination medicines used to treat allergies, cough, cold and fever.

Read this Consumer Update to learn how to avoid giving your child too much of any active ingredient.

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