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| 3 | I'm not sure if it is from zyrtec but my son seems to stutter when he is taking it.I went to this wbsite to see if it could be one others have had | M | 3 | 3 months | 4/4/2009 | 1 | Allergies | Facial tics | My son who is 7 has been taking Zyrtec 2 years. Within the 2 years I noticed that he was blinking his eyes a lot. It went from blinking to "eye rolling" within 6 months. The eye tic was so bad that I thought that he had Terrett (sp) syndrom. I starting looking on the internet and found this web site. My son also had night terror. I stopped Zyrtec and was wondering if anyone knows how long it stays in the system? He is soooo much better without this drug although I don't know what to do about his seasonal allergies (it did work for that). | M | 7 | 2 years | 4/3/2009 | 1 | Allergies | About 1 1/2 years ago I started giving children's liquid Zyrtec to my son per his Peds. Allergy Specialist. After reading this site, its like OMG... the changes in him are from the Zyrtec. He used to be a happy go lucky kid, nothing rattled him, he slept through the night. Now he is angry and mean, sleeps poorly, having concentration problems in school, having crying meltdowns, being clingy. It's like he has become a totally different child. There is no rhyme or reason to his crying fits or his angery fits. The hardest part of this for me to accept is that I did this to him, I allowed a Doctor tell me there are no side effects to this drug. When clearly there is, my son was on 1 1/2 teaspoons a day per Doctors orders. (1/2 teaspoon more then recommend dose) I am stopping it TODAY!!! Hopefully by the end of April I'll have my little sweety back. Someone should look into a class action lawsuit, this drug is harming innocent children because these Doctors and drug companies are ha | To any parents who are considering this or have just started your child on this horrible drug STOP!!!!! You won't recognize your child if you keep them on this drug. This past year and a half has been a nightmare for me to watch my son turn into this depressed, angry, exhausted, fits of crying and meltdown child. I have spent the last year trying to figure out what has happen to my son, and not been able to come up with an answer. My family has just started family counseling because I have tried everything else. I will update you at the end of April to let you know how he is doing. | M | 6 | 1 years | 3/30/2009 | 2 | yes | Very cranky , hitting , yelling , shouting , getting really mad hard to control | I have seem many people concerns over the ZYRTEK , CLARITIN , SINGULAR especially on kids and read about the similar syntoms as i have seen for my 7 year old. But i never realized that those symptoms could be because of any of these medicines and as many specified the doctors or FDA does not mention these as side effects anywhere. I am glad that i found this site. In 2007 I was using an ayurvedic medicine for my sons allergies which was working perfectly with no side effects but then last year i took zyrtek again as it became available OTC and was a bit lazy ordering my ayurvedic medicine online. Now I am going to order it and would like to suggest it to moms who would like to try an alternative. It is called 'Septilin' by Himalaya herbals. you can also search for it on google. And I also suggest to teach some yoga to the kids especially to asthma prone. I tried with my child and i see a lot of improvement. Doing 'Pranayama' is good for this which is a set of Breathing exercises. And in that especially 'Kapalabathi' exercise is very good. You can also search in youtube for Baba Ramdev exercises and demonstrations. You can get all the info on the above by a simple search in google. I hope this is helpful | M | 7 | 1 years | 3/24/2009 | 1 | allergies | My 3 year old daughter became a different person | She has always been a sweet, attentive, loving little girl then about a year ago she started having some real problems. She was irritable, irrational, stopped talking, regressed in her potty training, complained daily of stomach pain, and seemed to be on a different planet most of the time. At one point it got so bad we almost had her tested for Autism. We finally made the connection that her bad phases coincided exactly with allergy season and realized it was Zyrtec. I was so relieved to find this web site and see that many others have come to the same conclusion. Now that she is not taking it we have our little girl back. It is wonderful. They really need to put stronger warnings on Zyrtec. | F | 3 | 1 years | 3/22/2009 | 1 | severe allergies | My son has been taking this medicine for the last 3 years. He was a carefree, playful, and very caring toddler. However, over the last 3 years he has increasingly become violent, had trouble concentrating in school (his teacher kept asking us if he had ADD), and completely irrational. Nothing we did seemed to help. | When I starting thinking about the timing of his behavioral change, it kept coming back to the time he started taking Zyrtec. Then I found this site and read other parents' experience...OMG, I'm stopping the Zyrtec immediately. I hope to have my sweet & caring son back to the way he was very soon!!! | M | 6 | 3 years | 3/19/2009 | 1 | Seasonal | My 4 year old daughter took it and immediately became a different child. Crying over everything, irrational behavior, loss of interest in things she normally enjoys. | Kicking this med to the curb... | F | 4 | 2 days | 3/18/2009 | 1 | seasonal allergies | defiant behavior | My child had been taking Zyrtec for 3 years. It was a fluke that we discovered her behavior was related to her taking zyrtec. We had run out and skipped a couple of days. Over the last year, we had been having problems with her at school/home with defiant/violent behavior. She's such a sweet child. Most of the time she didn't know why she was doing what she was doing. She began to tell us she hated herself because she couldn't "be good". It broke out hearts. We had been taking her to a counselor and were getting her screened for ADHD. Don't give this drug to your children! My beautiful little girl is back to being her sweet self. Is anyone suing???? I can't believe something isn't being done. My poor baby suffered for 3 years!!! | F | 5 | 3 years | 3/10/2009 | 1 | Seasonal Allergies | Zyrtec caused my 12 year old son to be tired, drowsy, and drugged out and it didn't work very well. | For years I have been giving my 12 year old son lots of different allergy drugs, including Claritin, Tylenol, Zyrtec and others. None of them really worked and they all made him very tired and drugged out. Recently, I saw Dr Hansen on our morning news show here in Arizona as he was talking about a natural allergy product named Flavinox and explaining how it works and it really made sense to me. I drove over to his Scottsdale office that morning to get a bottle and went directly to my sons school to start him on the capsules. When he came home from school about 3 hours later he was like a different person than when he left that morning. I could see it in his face and eyes. He was feeling 100% better and he told me about an hour after he took the capsule he could feel the difference and he kept feeling better as the day went on. Since then I have been giving him about 3 capsules a day and he's a baseball player so sometimes before a game I give him an extra one and I am truly amazed a | M | 12 | 1 years | 3/7/2009 | 1 | indoor allergies | I'm so thankful for finding this web site. Our 3.5 year old son has been a different child while taking this medication. I came here today in the off chance that the liquid form of zyrtec might be responsible...... I am relieved and sad to know so many other children have had the same side affects. He is very angry, won't eat, disrespectful and sleeps fitfully. He is off this stuff today! | M | 3.5 | 3 months | 3/6/2009 | 4 | Severe allergies | Facial and body tics | My 10 year old son had been taking Zyrtec for the better part of 5 years. He developed intermittent facial and body tics. If we were ever late on picking up his refill for Zyrtec, his tics would stop. Upon restarting the medication the tics would reappear. Although this medication worked wonderfully for his allergies, I don't think it's worth any risks. | M | 10 | 5 years | 3/3/2009 | 2 | seasonal allergies | My 5-year-old developed an extremely volatile mood tending toward tearfulness, depression, erratic sleep patterns. This occurred on the day I started giving him Children's Zyrtec and ended the day after he ceased to take it. | M | 5 | 5 days | 3/3/2009 | 1 | Allergies | My 7 year old daughter took this for 1 1/2 weeks. I am sorry that I ever put her on it. She is a sweet, loving child who behaves very well. She turned into a demon child. She lost her apetite and would not eat anything at all. She complained about stomach aches and dry throat. She was afraid to eat or drink because she said her throat felt as if it would close up. | This product should be taken off of the market immediately. I spoke to several moms tonight at a PTA meeting and they had the same complaints about their children. My daughter would scream at me and tell me that I dont understand her. She would wake up and just start yelling at me. My daughter wakes up sooo happy every day. She was not herself in anyway. I took her off of it 4 days ago... her apetite is back x 10 and my sweet, loving, caring child is back. It breaks my heart that I put her through that greif. Never again. | F | 7 | 10 days | 3/3/2009 | 2 | Allergies | My daughter was put onto Zyrtec for allergies and she has uncontrollable crying and anxiety. | F | 9 | 30 days | 2/20/2009 | 1 | child with allergies | My 6 year old daughter started crying a lot and being very clingy, she didn't want to eat, her stomach hurt, and she was very tired. she was acting very rude. took it about 1 month. | F | 6 | 1 days | 1/15/2009 | 2 | hives | weight gain, mood swings, difficult to concentrate | my 8 y/o son was given zyrtec by the allergist for hives in july . it is december and my son has gained 7 pounds in 5 months. he has lower grade average, difficult concentrating, tearful etc. i will take him off this med today and will use benadryl if needed , not on a daily basis as with zyrtec. i should have checked this before. | M | 8 | 5 months | 12/23/2008 | 2 | allergies/asthma | drowsiness, problems with attention/focus | My 7-year-old has been on Zyrtec for four years. He was having trouble in school. His reading levels were poor. This year his teacher even thought he might have ADD or an auditory processing disorder. He was going to be evaluated by a speech pathologist, and they asked me if he was on any allergy medicine. I told them yes, he is on Zyrtec, Singulair and Advair, when needed. She told me to check the side effects of these medicines. After checking Zyrtec, I read other similar reports that children were having trouble focusing, paying attention and reading levels were poor. I took my son off all medicines. There has been a huge improvement. His reading level went from a 12 to a 20 in one month. His teacher said he is volunteering answers during class discussion and is being more social. This has all changed since taking him off the medicine. His attention and focus is much better. Now that he's off the medicine, I asked him if he feels different. He told me he used to feel | M | 7 | 4 years | 12/19/2008 | 2 | food and environmental allergies | Screaming fits similar to night terrors that lasted an hour at night, wouldn't look anyone in the eye, defiant(would constantly run into the street,screaming if you changed his diaper), hyperactive, lost speech ability, a nurse said he might have autism, fell down constantly, seemed in a fog. | Worked great at first- he slept better for a few weeks. Then after a few months the side effects set in. I don't want to put my kids on any drugs again. I'm looking into holistic and homepathetic cures now. | M | 1 | 6 months | 11/21/2008 | 1 | daughters allergy | this drug is stupid and doesnt work | does not help allergies, and it full of crap, i dont like it, my daughter is still getting horrible allergies. | F | 10 | 1 years | 11/21/2008 | 3 | environmental allergies | My daughter has been taking zyrtec for over 3 years. I never put many thing together because when she started taking the medicine was the same time children at the age of 3 start acting out - crying about nothing - temper tantrums - etc. Her doctor recommended that she take the 10 mg 2 times a day due to her itchy reaction to her allergies. Unfortunately, I never questioned the behavior side effects of this medicine. My daughters 1st grade teacher asked me to look into the effects of zyrtec and how effects children. I am shocked at what I have read! As of today she is no longer taking the medicine! We are looking for a natural alternative! However, she does get monthly shots to help build her immune system and we are as of now going to continue with the shots, BUT no more zyrtec! We are hoping that her emotional outburst will get better ... who would have thought ???? I'm so disappointed in the reality of the medical world! | If you have a child don't let them take this drug!!!! It might help their symptoms, BUT who knows what it is doing to their BRAINS! | F | 6 | 3 years | 11/13/2008 |