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 |
| 1 | exercise induced asthma | My 3 year old daughter is normally a very laid back and pretty quiet child. SHe's been on it for 8 days, and the past few days she has been out of control and completely out of character. Bouncing off walls, throwing tantrums, and not listening at all. | I will be taking her off this now. Especially after hearing there is aspartame in it. | F | 3 | 8 days | 12/11/2006 | 1 | asthma, allergies | mood swings, irritailtiy, violent, leg pains, night terrors, depressed, senstive, drinking like crazy | My son was put on singulair when he was 15 months for very bad asthma and allergies, It worked great for him untill things started that i have just linked to the pill. I can't pin point when they started but the last year things where getting worse and then the braking point was it has been 3 months of night terrors everynight, I could not tkae it any ore and took him off, it has been 3 weeks and what a change already, Im so sorry that i waiting so long. | M | 3 | 2 years | 6/12/2005 | 1 | Allergies / Asthma | Extreme aggressive behaviour, hitting, kicking, yelling. Turned a wonderful little boy into someone we didn't know. His preschool teachers reported having to segregate him from the other kids because of his hitting all day. Normally a very loveable and affectionate child. Always high energy but while on medication unable to shut him down. Constant night terrors, wouldn't sleep for 9 nights in a row. Out of three physicians nobody informed us of these possible side effects. After weeks of no sleep and inability to calm him down we researched it on the internet only to discover that everyone else had experienced what we were dealing with. We are kicking ourselves for letting this go on for five weeks before we asked why he was like this. We thought it was the trying three's. He complained of a sore penis as well as a "belly ache" every night within an hour of taking the medication. He cried all the time and needed constant reassurance and wanted us with him all the ti | 4mg at bedtime definitely improved his asthma and allergies. We were able to significantly reduce the need for his puffers but there is not a chance we would ever give him singulair again. He had his last dose 72 hours ago and we now have our little sweetheart back. He has his sense of humour back and loveable huggable nature. We will research everything we give him in the future before it ever touches his lips. Our family physician, the asthma clinic, and allergist immunologist are going to get an earful from us for not mentioning that these side effects were something to watch out for. Parents beware and ask questions! These little ones can't express themselves well enough yet to tell us what is really going on. | M | 3 | 7 weeks | 1/16/2007 | 1 | Seasonal allergies | My then 2 year old was on this drug for mild allergies for 18 months she suffered extreme fear, anxiety, depression, memory loss, confusion, agression, self harm, tummy aches and pains in all parts of her body, always sad and scared, loss of communication and emotion, agression towards others and herself, bed wetting, Hallucinations, hearing voices, could not sleep or sleep alone. We were not informed of these neurospsychiatric side effects or any of these others we assumed it was a toddler and the terrible 2 and 3s but we now know it wasnt. We took her off and her recovery began with withdrawals and intensified side effects slowly she become the little girl I knew she always was. 6 months on and she has recovered but we dont know what damage that drug did to my little girl. | This should not be given to children who cannot explain themselves or their emotions | F | 3 | 18 months 4mg | 10/15/2019 | 1 | Asthma | My daughter was on this medication for 20 days, her behavior changed almost immediately, throwing fits that were not normal 3 year old fits, I had to pick her up from daycare 3 different times for being mean to other kids and just being completely out of control, the last episode was completely horrible. The daycare recorded her and I could not even believe that it was my child she was so angry and aggressive throwing chairs across the room. After it was over with she was crying and apologizing saying she did not know why she did it, and it is not fair. We stopped the medication last night so hopefully she will get back to normal. | F | 3 | 20 days 1X day | 12/15/2021 | 1 | asthma | My daughter took montelukast from the age of 3yrs for poorly controlled asthma symptoms. Over a period of time, we noticed her usual cheerful personality changed and she became more subdued. She began complaining of bad headaches,to the extent she couldn't bend down. GP said they were stress related,which I questioned as I couldn't believe a 6yr old child could be suffering from stress. I read up on her medications and decided upon myself to stop montelukast, much to the anger of her asthma consultant. The headaches ceased and she became more like her old self. Shortly after this time, we noticed that she was pulling her eyelashes/eyebrows out(in secret) and couldn't explain why she was doing this. She was refered to CAAMHS and diagnosed with severe anxiety issues, but continues to pull her hair out to this day-she is now 9yrs old. I felt guilty that I stopped her asthma medication- which is still poorly controlled-assuming that the GP's initial diagnosis of stress headaches was probably correct. Last week, her consultant re-prescribed montelukast & the headaches have started again. This has now lead me to think that I was right after all about the headaches and after reading comments on this website that possibly my 9 year old daughter's 'mental health' issues stem from the prolonged use of montelukast during her early years. | See above | F | 3 | 3 years 5mg | 2/26/2015 | 1 | Asthma | Gave one dose to my 3 year boy. He could not sleep the whole night and complained about flu like symptoms. Ear pain, slight fever and tummy ache were most notable and also is listed as common side effects. Heart was accelerated and he complained of strange dreams. All from one dose!!! This is a 3 year old that sleeps a solid 10 hours a night with no issues. This stuff is poison. Glad we found out after only one dose. I feel terrible for those who suffered long term issues from long term use of this drug. | We immediately discontinued the drug and learned a valuable lesson. We even asked the doctor about "notable side effects" and he said "there are none". No more trusting this pediatrician (we thought he was one of the good ones) !! | M | 3 | 1 days 5mg | 12/4/2016 | 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 | 1 | Allergies | Thirsty, weight gain and occassional vomitting | I feel horrible. I thought I did my homework prior to giving my 2.5 yr this crapy medicine but I didnt look far enough. Medicine cleared up the nasal drip caused by allergies but caused thirst and vomitting. People dont care about people anymore. I remember a time when doctor's were doctor's. They really cared abot their clients. | F | 2.5 | 7 days | 2/8/2008 | 1 | Allergy & Asthma Treatment | We administered the 4 mg chewable to our 2.5 year old at 8 a.m. the next day after our allergist visit and noticed a huge 'meltdown' from the time we picked him up from his day care (3:30 p.m.) until we finally calmed him down and got him to sleep at 7:15 p.m. While we originally dismissed this behavior because we occasionally have challenges with our son (as all parents do), my wife and I could not believe the longevity, severity and marked difference of this episode when compared to his usual 'meltdowns'. There were no other differences in his life this past few days that we can attribute his behavior change to other than the drug [Montelukast sodium] he took about 12 hours prior... he has slept normally, eaten normally and is entrenched in his normal everyday schedule - except the introduction of this Montelukast sodium and Aspartame to his system. In reading the comments from other 2-9 year olds on Singulair from this website the side effects are all remarkably similar. Angry, | Our physician (Allergist) should have known about this website and these side effects. When we asked our physician (Allergist) about the effects, this physician (Allergist) did not mention this at all. We asked two or three times to make sure that this physician (Allergist) came forth with all about this medication. No warning from our physician (Allergist) about this type of side effect. | M | 2.5 | 1 days | 3/5/2007 | 1 | Asthma | Aggressive behaviour, uncontrollable crying, extreme temper tantrums, lack of concentration/interest, hyperactivity. . .. | My 2 1/2 year old son was prescribed singulair only 1 week ago for his asthma. After just a few days I noticed a drastic change in his behaviour. He has acted completely out of character and has been angry and aggressive with other children. I know that 2 year olds are reknown for their lack of self control when it comes to behaviour and on a regular day he is no angel, but his behaviour has been extreme. After only 2 days he was complaining of back ache. He has been nervous to even go upstairs on his own and has been vary anxious in situations where he is normally very comfortable and confident. He has experienced nose bleeds from the slightest bump. He has had exteme temper tantrums and has looked at me with such hate in his eyes. I have read other comments on this site and share the feelings of a lot of parents who feel angry with the doctors for prescribing this medication without fully discussing the possible side effects. I was made to feel like an over protective mother | M | 2.5 | 7 days | 6/25/2008 | 5 | Sinus infections and wheeezing | My son became aggressive and moody after taking Singular for a week. He would hit and throw a tantrum for no apparent reason. He also became excessively rough with his 3 year old sister and 4 month old brother. He also hit my aunt whom he usuaaly is well behaved with. | Other than behavior issues, he has free of runny noses, snot, coughing, and wheezing. It worked wonderfully for his allergies but I'm not sure the side affects are worth it. | M | 2 | 16 days | 5/15/2007 | 5 | Athsma symptoms | None | My son had two terrible winters - every cold he had resulted in a chronic cough that kept us all awake for days and became incredibly distressing for us all. Between colds was not much better with persistent nighttime cough that made him miserable from Oct-Mar. Summer he is a different boy with no issues. Prescribed inhalers made little difference. First cold of this winter was the worst yet and he coughed so hard for a weekend he was sick and crying from the pain. After I argued that the inhaler was having no effect the doctor prescribed this and his life has become normal. Colds like any other child but no persistent cough. We worried about his behavior over Christmas and after reading this forum reacted be withdrawing the medicine. This was a huge mistake and after a week we reinstated to eliminate the symptoms. The behavior changed were only with us and his childminder had noticed no difference. This medication has been life-changing this winter and any side effects we have firmly isolated as the terrible twos. | M | 2 | 2 months 1X day | 2/11/2011 |