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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR SINGULAIR | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | for asthmas related to allergies | we gave this drug to my seven year old son and, like all the other, found it to be a miracle cure for asthma and allegies. However, like many of the others that wrote, he became angry, irrational and mean -- a complete and scary personality change. He also had nose bleeds and leg aches, which I had dismissed entirely and now believe to be related to the drug. Thank God I found this site and others like it to help me see the real problem. After just a few days off the drug, he is back to his old, sweet self. | This drug should be exposed and banned-- it absolutely should not be administered to children without proper explanation of possible side effects. The drug company web-site does not mention anything. | M | 7 | 21 days | 2/18/2006 | 1 | sports induced asthma | severe headached, mood swings, just not her self, more recently what we know now a petit mal seizure and on sunday a ride to the hospital in an ambulance after we found her in convulsions and foaming at the mouth!!!!!! | my 10 year old daughter has not been the same since she started taking singulair just 2 months ago, if it would not have been for the sites we may have never linked it. we have taken her off the medicine of course and are waiting for mri, eeg, ekg testing. please pray for us.!!!! | F | 10 | 2 months | 2/17/2006 | 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 | 1 | Asthma | Son is depressed, suicidal, angry, has body tics, irritable, hypersensitive, has nightmares, he is bouncing off the wall | Please help guide me. My Son is was on Adviar 250/50, but I am finding the same problems posted for both Singulair and Advair. We thought he was losing his mind until I found these postings.Who can help? He can't function at school, he is disruptive. he is so moody. Has the drug caused permanent mental damage? He used to be such a good boy and so kind. At 11 he now talks of suicide. Doctors that I talked to after reading other postings don't seem to believe the link. The drug company has never studied a 250/50 dosage effect on children. We stopped the drug last night and he is on 24 hour watch. Will I get my Son Back, we are devastated. If he would have been successful in suicide the other day, I would have never put the link to this drug. How many others are out there not knowing that the drug causing these problems. I beg anyone to help guide us for help? | M | 11 | 4 months | 1/26/2006 | 1 | Astma | My 5 year old went from a normal child to Mr. Hyde. Destroyed his classroom in violant episode. Attacked his teachers | The drug did wonders for his asthma however over the course of 3 months he changed from normal to a monster. He was always a bit agressive but this took that agression and amplified it. Based on what I have read so far I am taking him off the drug and am hoping I get my son back. | M | 5 | 90 days | 1/26/2006 | 2 | asthmatic coughing at night | Hyperactivity, night-time waking, excitability | After 24 hours my son was showing clear signs of excitability which became progressively worse until on the 3rd night he was unable to sleep for most of the night and was so overexcitable we couldn't let him attend preschool | M | 3 | 3 days | 1/20/2006 | 1 | Reactive Airway Disease | My son was having daytime hallucinations (hearing and visualizing monsters trying to get him), night terrors, irritability. Had same thing experienced by friends' children who said their kids were also doing the same things. BAD DRUG FOR CHILDREN!!!!! Stopped having these side effect after I discontinued singulair. | I don't think they researched this drug correctly | M | 3 | 3 months | 1/8/2006 | 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 | for asthma and allergy | My son became more sensitive and very serious.Shortly after falling asleep my son would wake up with night terrors. He was really asleep but could not wake up.He was very scared and acting crazy.This had not happened since he last took the med 3 years ago. I forgot this med was the cause and now took it for 2 days and the results were the same as 3 years ago | After comforting back into bed and telling Him he was OK he eventually fell asleep.3 years ago he was taking for1-2 years and he had many night terrors. After it was out of his system he never had them again. Even if it took all asthma symptoms away it is not worth taking if a person's mind is so affected. | M | 13 | 2 days | 12/11/2005 | 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 |