SINGULAIR Reviews (MONTELUKAST SODIUM)Average Rating: 2.1 (1370 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare SINGULAIR with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR SINGULAIR | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | asthma/ night TERRORS | NO side effects | My son is 4 1/2 years old, he has been having night terrors 2-3 episodes a month since he was 2. he was just diagnosed with asthma(R.A.D.) and has slept through the night ever since, this medicine is the answer to my prayers. He has also been on xopenex. | M | 4 | 2 months 4 MG 1X day | 8/18/2010 | 5 | dust mites allergies | No side effect | No side effect.its like magic..very helpful.no more night nose blockage or eys irritaion.life is so happy with this..thnx | M | 4 | 1 days 4mg | 10/2/2015 | 4 | Child asthma | none that were noticeable, wondering if there are long term side effects?? | my 3 year old developed severe asthma symptoms and was repeatedly being admitted or rushed to hospital with every cough and cold, which was being made much worse by the fact he has respiratory problems. The preventer ( steroid) inhalers were not making a difference and the reliever inhaler was giving him an increased heart rate ( very common side affect of reliever inhaler) and made him hyper and feelings of extreme hunger. Singulair was prescribed and within two weeks has changed my sons life, from virtually being unable to walk up stairs to being able to run around and he almost never gets a cold now!! The mmr vaccine has given him more terrible side effects than singulair!! | M | 4 | 7 months 4mg 1X day | 8/8/2011 | 4 | Asthma/Allergies | My 4yo is taking this and is complaing of her head hurting all the time and not sleeping at night. Now she takes it in the morning. | Has helped her greatly with the wheezing and coughing | F | 4 | 30 days | 12/11/2006 | 3 | Allergies/Asthma | Diarrhea, abdominal cramps, irritability, very dramatic behavior (crying and screaming over anything and everything), lack of focus-unable to sit still, aggressive behavior, anxiety, hyperactivity, severe nightmares | My son is 4 1/2 years old and has been on singulair for 3 years; this drug definitely helps prevent his allergy related asthma attacks, he has needed his inhaler maybe 6 times since he started on this drug. HOWEVER, we accidentally forgot to refill his prescription over Christmas vacation (Dec 2005) and within two days we noticed a dramatic change in his behavior; he was calm (very little drama), focused, happy, cooperative, just a happy 4 year old boy. We contacted our Family Doctor and he advised that the negative behavior, (that we always thought was his normal behavior), could possibly be a result of the Singulair and we decided to keep him off the drug to test this theory. His daycare giver and preschool teachers all noticed a dramatic positive change in his behavior. After a month off the drug we had to put him back on it as his asthma flared up again. The negative behavior came back full force and is still with us to date...the positives have outweighed the negatives. We recentl | M | 4 | 3 years | 8/9/2006 | 3 | childhood reactive airway disease | irritability, aggression, waking up at night yelling, irrational behavior | significantly improved daughter's breathing but turned her into 'dr. jekyll and mr. hyde'. stopped the med and her personality improved but her breathing worsened. started again 2 days ago, but stopping today...can't stand the mood swings and sensitivity. i hope we find an alternative to singulair because i really don't want her to be on it. | F | 4 | 5 months | 3/21/2007 | 3 | allergies | My daughter has been on this for several years. While it has helped her allergies she complains of leg aches, stomach aches, is very emotional, does not sleep at night and has nightmares. I thought it was just the terrible two's going into the four's but now am going to take her off this medicine and see what happens. | F | 4 | 2 years | 4/30/2007 | 3 | airway reactive disease | My child has been a terror since she has been on this med.(Aggressiveness,hitting, kicking,yelling,screaming). She never had this type of behavior before starting this med. It certainly helped the coughing and vomiting, but we will be discontinuing it now that I am realizing the behavior changes are not the terrible 4's. | If your child's personality has changed do not hesitate to consider that Singulair may be the culprit. | F | 4 | 5 months | 1/27/2007 | 3 | Severe allergies inducing croup | depression, agression, compulsive behaviour, mood swings, nightmares, bedwetting, teeth grinding | I'm writing this on behalf of my 4 year old as I sit here crying. I didn't know that an allergy medication that has done so much to help her breathing could do this to a child! Over the last few weeks her behaviour started to change toward repetative behaviours to the point where she wouldn't play with toys, had to be colouring and cutting out everything. The bedwetting came back, the moods and aggression I figured was a phase, but a week ago the depression settled in on her and she started to cry for no reason and couldn't tell me anything that was wrong, one minute she's outside bouncing a ball, the next she drops it and her head and starts to cry. This has been repeating since. Nothing else has changed - she doesn't have a babysitter or daycare, she's not been left alone with anyone. I'm a stay at home mom. She is an only child, so there's no sibling rivalry. I've been trying to figure out where my child has gone and where the monster came from. Now I know the monster is the singul | F | 4 | 2 months | 8/15/2007 | 3 | improve inflamation, cold defenses | My son was always bright and very active; on Singular he gradually became anxious, easily excitable, moody, contrary and down on himself. I had no idea it was the medicine. I even changed his school! Dr. and teachers thought he might eventually need to be tested for ADD. I brought up the possibile connection to singulair to his Dr., who said she didn't think Singulair was the problem because he'd always been active. We decided to ween him off 3/27 after a teacher noted anxiety; since then his behavior has improved radically. Not only is he more agreeable and calmer at home, but at school the teachers tell me they are seeing him focus on tasks and take on challenges he wouldn't have considered even two weeks ago. Singulair brought his repeated colds under control, but at a cost. | Singulair reduced his suseptibility to colds. Since birth he got many colds despite being breastfed. Nearly 2 years ago, the colds got to where he wasn't over one when the next began. Finally, 18-months ago, Dr. said Singulair would reduce inflamation and give him time to heal and fight off colds. I resisted initially, but eventually agreed because he was always sick. As his health improved, he gradually became more anxious, contrary and down on himself. I thought problems were school related. But now his behavior has dramatically improved in last month since we began weening him off singular -- preschool teachers who had noted anxiety (and didn't know about sing. change) told me wide-eyed last week that they had never seen him so well behaved and willing to work. This is not just a matter of blaming medication for behavior problems as one writer below said. | M | 4 | 1 years | 4/29/2008 | 3 | severe allergy/asthma | mood swing, bed wetting,dry mouth,very bad breath almost dosen't go away no matter how many times we brush his teeth,bad behaviour doesn't listen at all, cries over minor staff ,his sad and angry, nightmares | the med did help my son but the side effects are way too much the sad thing is my son was on singular for 2 and1/2 years and i couldn't figure out what was going on until i google the med | M | 4 | 2 years | 2/28/2008 | 3 | asthma | The Dr. put my daughter on this medication at age 2 after my daughter had respiratory failure due to reactive lung disease. I thought that it was a godsend as her breathing much improved and she was able to participate in simple activities like running after being on it for a month or so. At about age 4 she started having headaches, sore throats, neck pain, leg pain, stomach aches and nightmares. | I have had her in the doctors office several times over the last year for these symptoms and never got any answers or indications that the singulair might be causing these symptoms. I am furious! My sweet four year old has headaches all of the time and not one of the doctors mentioned that this could be a side effect! | F | 4 | | 9/13/2009 | 2 | allergies; dermagraphism; asthma | irritable; terrible moodswings; nightmares; zoned out; hyper & then crashes | the doctors kind of make you feel like you're imagining these drug reactions. they told me that singular was an amazing drug and did all kinds of amazing things for the kids when i took my daughter off it the first time. urged me to put her back on it if i wanted her better. | F | 4 | 1 years | 11/24/2009 | 2 | asthma/allergies | agressiveness, tantrums, crying, yelling out, anger, mood swings, not listening, unable to focus, 360 change in personality. | My 4 year old son took singulair on 2 occasions for about a month each time. It did seemed to help his allergies, but at the same time his personality changed drastically. At first I thought he was going through a phase. He became a different child. very difficult to deal with. I feel so guilty about getting angry at him for his behavior while on this drug. I finally made the correlation and took him off of it. After the drug got out of his system, he was back to his usual sweet self (both times). I hate the fact that I was punishing my child for his behavior when it was my fault for giving him this poison. Be careful giving this to your child and watch out for the side effects. It may work for some, but it seems like it has a bad effect on others. It is sad with the kids because they can't communicate how they feel like and adult can. What good is a medication if it makes you unable to function. | M | 4 | 2 months | 10/25/2009 | 2 | astma | my 4 yr old daughter has allways been strong minded. she just started nursery in sept. her we chest had been giving her bother and i was worried about her attendance in school so her doctor prescribed singular chewable. when i thin back to when she started talking them she cried non stop at night for 4 nights she has now become anxious crying and really bad tantrums i have decide from today that im going to take her of these tablets because she is crying non stop from she gets up till she goes to bed. | woulnt recommend these tablets this is a mother whose child had to get 12 teeth out with medication for asthma | F | 4 | 3 days | 12/16/2009 | 2 | Asthma | Irritability, agression, crying, tantrums. | I live in Australia and my son was prescribed Singulair as an asthma preventative when he was 1.5 years old. We have always thought that we had a very "difficult" child and have put his tantrums and crying down to terrible twos etc. He was constantly in trouble at home for being rough and wild with his sisters, for hitting and kicking and for being extremely defiant and "angry". I could not even take him to the shops because of his behaviour. We have been to numerous GPs and Paediatricians in regard to his behaviour and have seriously thought he may have ADHD or something similar. Not one of our doctors mentioned that Singulair has been known to cause some of these issues!! We lost his prescription for Singulair and he was off it for a couple of weeks, during which time he, and thus our whole family, experienced an incredible change. He is a happy, gentle boy!! It was only after re-filling his prescription and seeing a rapid move back to anger, crying, extreme d | M | 4 | 2.5 years | 7/16/2008 | 2 | mild asthma | leg pain, headache | did not prevent bronchial asthma in my case. | M | 4 | 3 weeks | 4/13/2005 | 2 | Asthma | Daughter's agression. | I have taken Singulair for 3 years and have experienced no side effects (I am 36), however my four-year-old daughter started taking Singulair only two days ago and had a violent, prolonged episode that I have never seen before. She is also acting "spaced out" and seems to be hearing things that aren't there. I am stopping it immediately with her and have placed a call to her doctor. She has never had any mental health issues and is otherwise a healthy child. | F | 4 | 2 days | 10/23/2008 | 2 | allergies; rhinitis | 4 year old son had a dramatic personality change soon after taking 5mg chewable tablet each day. Became physically aggressive and irritable. He said he felt like "a bad guy" while on the medication. | Granted his allergies improved I took him off the medication because he was an angry little boy and previously he had been very happy go lucky. (His original personality was restored within 3 days of discontinuation of Singulair.) | M | 4 | 2 weeks | 1/27/2006 | 2 | allergy/sinus | nightmares, difficulty sleeping, depression (when she is normally a very happy girl), anxiety, lots of crying (not able to explain why) | It worked wonders for my daughter last year when she took it by itself for about two weeks to control nasal congestion and cough. It was prescribed again this year on a longer basis, but this time it did not work so well on its own. Three more meds were then prescribed along with the Singulair. After 2.5 months of Singulair alone and 3 more weeks of the combined meds, her congestion and cough have not gone away and she has been having all these BAD side effects for a week now. She cries all day for no reason, doesn't want to stay in Pre-K (which she loves), cries in her sleep, and has nightmares every night. The Dr. doesn't think it has anything to do with Singulair, but after reading all these comments I will definitely STOP giving it to her. I was so concerned about her behavioral changes that I thought she needed a psychologist. Now I know better and I hope she goes back to normal very soon. | F | 4 | 3 months | 5/5/2006 |