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ER visits for children accidentally eating melatonin have spiked drastically: CDC (thehill.com)

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Unsupervised exposures of infants and young children to melatonin have increased substantially in recent years, landing thousands of children in the emergency room.

The number of kids aged 5 and younger who went to an emergency room for unsupervised melatonin ingestion increased 420 percent from 2009 to 2020, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

More recently, melatonin was implicated in approximately 11,000 emergency department visits among infants and young children between 2019–2022.

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

There's also been a lot of parents/caregivers who admit to giving kids melatonin to knock them out...

So if there's a large increase in "accidents" it might be due to parents giving them to their kids and saying it's "candy" first. It might even parents dosing their kids too much and panicking, then blaming the kids when they go to ER

[–] autumn_rain@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago

There's many gummies the parents have that have CBD or other ingredients in them. Kids could have heart issues or some other conditions where an OD is dangerous on anything.

Likely many dog and cat deaths too due to the Xylitol that's used as a sweetener in gummy vitamins and supplements.

CBD used in melatonin gummies can harm cats and dogs too, and melatonin isn't good for some with health issues. Melatonin though is often used for animal health issues too, and is safe in appropriate therapeutic doses - but not something with all the additional ingredients.

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