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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR SINGULAIR | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | daughter 11 yrs. --asthma/allergies | Moodiness, irritability, fatigue, depression, headache, maybe joint pain | My daughter, aged 11, took this for allergies and asthma. It worked well in controlling her symptoms. She was a very happy, laid back kid before this but just told me last week that she has been depressed for two years. Recently it has been tough to get her up and going to school where she is an excellent student. Having researched this on sites like this I now see that the drug affected her mood and gave her other symptoms that we explained away as other causes. The symptoms have grown progressively worse over time. I've taken her off Singulair--2 days now--and have begun to see a difference in her mood. Will report back as time goes by. This drug needs to be seriously monitored in children and maybe even banned. I thank God and all the posters here for talking about their experiences as I was considering sending her to a psychologist and was getting to my wits' end. Other sites too show MANY parents noticing the same symptoms. Effectiveness of this drug is not worth the serious side | F | 11 | 2 years | 12/29/2005 | 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 | Asthmatic cough | After one brief episode of bad couging in the fall of 2004, my son now age 3 was prescribed Singulair chewable tablets. Around late August/early September this year he began to have atonic seizures consisting of like "head drop" seizures where he would hurt his head and face and his eyes would slightly roll back - these would just last about 2 seconds max. and he would have anywhere between 5 and 24 a day. Despite the reluctancy of our son's pediatrician, we took him off the Singulair on Oct 31st as we suspect the Singulair - also, the aspartame that is in the chewable tabs of Singulair can contribute to seizures. Today he had an EEG and we are awaiting an appointment with a pediatric neurologist tomorrow. | We would encourage all parents to research this drug more closely. | M | 3 | 1 years | 12/6/2005 | 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 | 1 | asthma and allergies | hypersensitivity, depression, severe anxiety, irritability, muscle aches, inability to sleep. | this drug is horrible for children. if i could give it a negative rating i would. it works on the allergy and asthma symptoms, but turns my son into a completely different person. don't put your kids on it!!!! | M | 3 | 1 years | 10/24/2005 | 2 | occassional asthma | The teachers wanted me to test my child for ADHD b/c he could not sit still, focus or concentrate. He had odd twitches and hand movements during class. He is in the 6th grade and this has never been reported before. He has been on the medicine since the start of school. We are taking him off now but will worry about his health. This is a very powerful drug that works, but at what cost. We were not willing to pay the price. | M | 11 | 3 months | 10/17/2005 | 3 | cough variant asthma | Irritability, extremely hypersensitivity, unable to focus, not able to complete tasks Take time and closely examine the hypersensitivity and the irritability areas. | In the begining I thought it was wonderful. but slowly but surely my son began to suffer in school. unable to focus or complete tasks. He just became irritable and extra hyper. His grades began to suffer Especially in the area of mathematics. It works because he never had to use an inhaler. The problem is the side effects. So I took him and his sister off the meds and am TRUSTING GOD for their complete healing. I'll point out my son has not had to use an inhaler since being off the meds for almost a month. My daughter ,5, has been extremely irritable and angry. that why I took my daughter off the meds. She had only been on them maybe 1 and 1/2 year give or take a few months. | M | 10 | 3 years | 10/7/2005 | 4 | Asthma & seasonal allergies | My daughter occasionally complains of a headache, but I suspect that may be from the Flovent because she has been off of it for a couple of months and has not complained. | Does a pretty good job of controlling her allergy symptoms. Helps somewhat with her asthma but not as well as expected; she still has to take her Flovent through out the winter months. | F | 5 | 9 months | 6/24/2005 | 1 | my 5 yo son took it | 2 days after began taking it, started hitting/biting himself, saying he was | Take extreme caution before giving this drug to your child. | M | 5 | 19 days | 6/21/2005 | 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 | asthma induced by allergies | irritability,restlessness, night terrors taking minimum of 1 hour to calm daughter down | My daughter is a very happy & active 2 y.o. (a few weeks under 2). She became restless after 2 doses (4mg at night), became irritalbe throughtout the day, and started night terrors (screaming/aggitated) after 4 doses. It would take a minimum of 1 hour to calm her down. This was so beyond her normal temperment & sleeping pattern that I discontinued use. I am a pediatric RN & would be interested to hear if anyone else had similar problems giving their child this med. | F | 2 | 6 days | 5/28/2005 | 1 | Asthma, Allergies, Sinus Infections | My three year old son's behavior changed completely. He turned violent and had really bad nightmares. | He was taking 4 mlg pills. It was so bad that I discontinued it. | M | 3 | 15 days | 5/10/2005 | 2 | mild asthma | leg pain, headache | did not prevent bronchial asthma in my case. | M | 4 | 3 weeks | 4/13/2005 | 1 | congestion | moderate to severe itching over torso, legs, back and arms. | F | 8 | 3 days | 3/25/2005 | 3 | asthma | irritibility, depression, extreme sensitivity | It helped wonderfully to begin with then gradually the side effects became alot worse until we had to stop taking it. | F | 11 | 5 years | 2/25/2005 | 5 | Asthma | Mar. 2003 started on my 3 yr old boy, ceased 2 yr long steroidal inhaler use after 8 months on med. Surprised MDs. 1- 4 mg. chewable at bedtime. | I am so pleased. Haven't needed the albuterol for 3 months. It has been 3 months since ceasing steroid too. | M | 4 | 1 years | 1/18/2005 | 5 | Asthma | None | Used by 3 year old son. Took a month to work, but has been flare free for 3 months. Took chewable tablets better than powder. | M | 3 | 4 months | 1/3/2005 | 1 | daughter was for asthma | after 2 years she has started having petit-mal seizures, and is very moody, depressed, unlike any normal 7 year old. | I would strictly advise parents to research this medicine before giving it to their child. | F | 7 | 2 years | 12/14/2004 | 1 | asthma | extreme sensitivity, irritability, aggressiveness, depression, anxiety, difficulty sleeping. | I am filling this information in based on experiences with my son. Singulair was a miracle for us when he first began taking it just after his 2nd birthday and worked well for the first year. At the beginning of his 2nd year on the meds he started showing the symptoms above. We took him off the singulair and maintained his other asthma meds as previously prescribed...the symptoms disappeared completely after about 2 months. No other changes to his meds were made. | M | 4 | 2 years | 11/28/2004 |