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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR SINGULAIR | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | asthma for 2 year old | insomnia, changes in sleep pattern, biting, nightmares | After research have found product's safety never established. Source: www.rxlist/the internet drug index .I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS DRUG MY WIFE HAD ALSO BEEN USING AND NOW HAS NOTICED COMMON SEVERE SIDE-EFFECTS. I strongly urge the company to do its research before prescribing it for children. I hope they monitor this board. | M | 2 | | 12/21/2005 | 1 | Asthma | My 2 year old son was diagnosed with Environmentally Induced Asthma in May 2006 (he was 19 months old). Smog and high humidity are the worst as are rapid chages in outdoor temperature. Needless to say we have had a very rough summer. We just stared taking Singular 3 DAYS ago and I have already noticed the side effects that are listed here by other parents. He has been calling out in the night and waking up crying many times throughout the night. I imagine this is the nighmares but he is still to young to tell me what is going on. He is also crying about the smallest things like having to put down his toy car to put on his coat. It's like it is devestating to him. He is also "doing laps" around the kitchen and dining room yelling "run around, run around". This fits with what other parents have reported as well. | We were trying Singulair to get him off the FloVent steroid puffer which is already noticibly stunting his growth, however he will regain the growth once he is no longer using the FloVent. We are discontinuing the Singulair today. I will not have my good natured, sweet little boy go through this. I am so greatful for this website that we could catch this after only 3 days not 3 months or 3 years. I just can't imagine. We are also using alternate medicine. Chiropractic/Naturopathic seems to have had a positive effect. I know that one of the "remedies" has greatly reduced his asthmatic symptoms but it does need to be suplemented with the conventional puffer. | M | 2 | 3 days | 11/20/2006 | 1 | asthma/coughing | High fever and cold symptoms. Night terror. | My 2 year old son was prescribed because he may have mild asthma and coughs a lot at night. His allergy doctor prescribed it. He has peanut allergy, and cat/pollen allergies. The very first night on it, he got a high fever and came down with cold symptoms. The next day I left a message with the doc and took him off of the med. Within 48 hours, his fever went back down, and then the doc called and said cold symptoms are unlikely and put him back on it. I gave him a dose, and the very same night his fever went back up to 103.5. Then next day his pediatrician said take him completely off until he's well and then try again to see what happens. After reading the stuff on this site, now I'm afraid to put him back on it. I also recall that the week he was taking it, he had a night terror -- and he had never had one of those before. Could be related. I think I'll ask the doc for another way to relieve the coughing. I hate giving my kid drugs for the reasons discussed on this site. | M | 2 | 2 days | 8/20/2007 | 1 | My two yr old son for allergies | My son went from being a cuddly, affectionate child to being a complete terror. He throws things, he smacks people, he deliberately does things repeatedly with you standing right there even though he was told know, then he laughs when you yell. | My son is not this child and I'm glad that I caught it when I did. I feel sorry for those parents whose children have suffered longer and worse than my son, but knowing this, he's off effective immediately. Why don't they warn you about these symptoms??? | M | 2 | 3 days 4mg 1X day | 3/29/2012 | 1 | Sinus | Night mares , crying , mood changes , crying a lot | M | 2 | 2 weeks Granuals | 5/7/2013 | 1 | asthma like symptoms | My twin boys were 18 months when they took this medicine and they BOTH began to have mood swings, one alot more than the other. We noticed it begin 2 days after we started the medicine and within 2 weeks our one son was having major fits 4-5 times a day for about 15 minutes each. You could tell he was unable to control them. | It worked great for there cough at night and wheezing but the behavior change was not worth it. After we stopped the med we have not seen those behaviors. | M | 2 | 3 weeks 4mg 1X day | 1/8/2011 | 1 | Allergies, RAD | Irribility, agressive defiant behavior. | My daughter was prescribed this medicine for allergies to prevent symptoms of RAD. After a couple of days we noticed her behavior change as she became very agressive and irritable and very defiant. I have stopped the medication and since her behavior has improved. I will ask her doctor about alternative meds such as Allegra or Clarinex. | F | 2 | 2 months 1X day | 2/3/2011 | 1 | Allergies asthsma | My daughter began taking drug as a replacement to Flonase for allergies. The first night she had night terrors, never had them before in her life. She woke up several times a night screaming and crying while on the drug. During the days she was very emotional, crying at the drop of a pin about everything. | F | 2 | 10 days 4mg 1X day | 6/29/2011 | 1 | two year old son taking for asthma | severe nightmares | it stopped my sons asthma cough in two days. But the nightmares have been horribile wont ever giver this drug to my son again. | M | 2 | 30 days 4mg 1X day | 5/20/2011 | 1 | Asthma and Allergies | My daughter was just put on Singulair for her Allergies and Asthmatic cough. Her allergist put her on this to see if it might help her I was very hessitant to give it to her but after seeing her suffer today I decided to give it without having time to sit down and read about the side effects. I am so terrified right now I think I am going to spend the night sitting next to her and watch her very closely. My heart goes out to all those parents who have had children suffer with those horrifying side effects. I cant believe something hasnt been done by the FDA to pull this drug from use of children. My nephew was also on this for a year for allergies when he was two after a year of taking them he stopped now he is 7 and he still has nightmares, cant sleep through the night, compains about voices he hears, extremely sensative, talks about killing himself at times, etc. Does anyone know if this might be a side effect from the drug after so many years? | F | 2 | 1 days 4mg 1X day | 9/30/2011 | 1 | Allergies | Massive temper tantrums, aggressive temperment, unable to please | My 2 year old suffers from allergies and the ped. gave us this. I noticed a change in her behaviour but thought it was because of the allergies and not feeling well. The medicine worked, but she was very hard to handle. I took her off of it to see if she would go back to before, and her mood improved within 2 days. Since then, I have put her on it when the allergies act up...I can definitly say it changes her mood drastically. I will never use it again. She goes from sweet and silly to one seriously mean, cranky, irritable child. Done with this stuff. | F | 2 | 6 months 2.5 1X day | 8/6/2010 | 1 | asthma problems | my son has fever, swelling in the face, very irritable and most of all nightmares and trouble sleeping, also found trouble swallowing. | It does not help or has little effect, my son is two and he has suffered from nightmares and hyperactivity from day one. I would not recommend this drug to anyone with asthma. Today my son was diagnosed with a throat infection, needs ventolin again and GP told us to come off the SINGULAIR | M | 2 | 7 days 4mg 1X day | 4/2/2010 | 3 | pediatric severe allergies | irritability, restless sleep, "jumping" in sleep, bad dreams, ?ear infections? | Our daughter has been on singulair(along with prevacid and bromphed) for over a year now. She seems to have done O.K. but recently she is not sleeping well and she is keeping an ear infection ALL the time. I can't wait to discuss this with her MD. I had NO IDEA her symptoms fit so well into the catagory of side effects. I'm curious because she has been on the meds for so long without obvious problems. | F | 2.5 | 1.5 years | 11/5/2005 | 3 | allergies | My sweet son (almost 3) turned into a monster on this drug. He had horrible temper tantrums, above and beyond the normal 2-year old tantrums. He was very angry, walked around all day like a zombie with his blankie and paci. He was very difficult to deal with. He has been off of it for one day and is having a great day today - I see a change already. | M | 2.5 | 2 months | 11/21/2008 | 2 | allergy/asthma | My daughter started complaining about feeling full all the time. She will experience bout of crying spell during the night and very hyper at times. I also noticed that she had some involuntary movements of her body while sleeping. | I'm glad to find this site and that I will not hesitate to discontinue the use of this drug. | F | 2.5 | 2 months | 10/18/2008 | 1 | Allergies | My 2 year old was prescribed Singular along with Nasonex and allergy shots for allergies. She has experienced horrible night terrors, mood changes, hitting and slapping episodes. I discounted these behaviors to change in routine (moving from a crib to bed)and bad behavior picked up at daycare. It wasn't until I was at a social gathering and a group of Mothers were talking about allergies. Several Mothers were discribing side effects of Singular and why they stopped giving it to their children..I was shocked...they just described my daughter for the past 6 months! I feel horrible that I didn't research myself! I answered the allergist's questions when asked how my daughter was doing with the medication..."she's doing great, no more running noses and cold are less frequent"..I didn't know what to ask or what to report on.Shame on me for not doing research, Shame on the doctors for not warning! | F | 2.5 | 6 months 4mg 1X day | 3/11/2012 | 1 | Seasonal Allergies | My 2 1/2 year old son was prescribed Singulair for allergies (also takes Zyrtec and Nasonex). He had trouble sleeping, woke up with nightmares a few times, would wake up tired from not sleeping well, he would throw huge tantrums (throwing things, kicking and hitting the wall, screaming), and the last straw was the day he threatened me for trying to wash his hands. In his words, "I want to cut your face mommy." Needless to say, we took him off of it right away and called the doctor. | Be extremely careful when you have a child on this drug. If there are ANY changes in behavior talk to your doctor immediately. | M | 2.5 | 3 weeks 4mg 1X day | 3/5/2012 | 1 | Protective med against flu sideeffe | Violent aggressive n mood swings for my 2.5 yr old like I had never seen before. Would advice parents take an informed decision before using this drug for little kids who don't even know what is happening to them and rely on parents for everything. | M | 2.5 | 3 days 1X day | 5/6/2010 | 1 | my son 2.5 was put on SingulAir | The doctor put him on mist treatment then SingulAir. my son was back to some normalcy but a little too quiet. almost like given a mild sedative. he slept good then his behavior plummeted back to aggressiveness, sore legs, anger, sensitive of crying spurts for just nothing he is afraid all of the time and continually wakes up every now and then starting at infrequent times. my doctor also perscribed QVAR instead of the flovent and the puffer ventolin and this to be the regime for 3 months straight. i told the doctor that my son is showing some very unusal signs like not eating not himself and left a message of taking him off this medication as it has been 2 weeks of this and i jsut want my character of my child back... why is the pharmecutical companies not taking into consideration that babies and toddlers CAN'T TALK and waht happend to doctors being doctors instead of drug pushers??? where is the advocacy for parents dealing with asthmatic children and children with problems and | Singular should have been investigated and NOT given to toddlers until the baby can talk for himself with reagard to expressing how he feels!!!! i am so sad about this because i do not have any options as a mother and not sure what to do now because noone in the medical physicain field seems to care | M | 2.5 | 2 weeks | 11/7/2008 | 1 | stuffy nose constant cough | mood changes,headaches,night terrors,difficulty sleeping, temper changes | Can't believe this could be the thing that changed my loving funny happy child to a agressive child(daily) | M | 2.5 | | 3/31/2008 |