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Cough medicine taken off saleParents were urged not to be alarmed following a decision to remove six cough and cold remedies for young children from the shelves.
The medicines, specifically marketed for use by children under two, are being removed from open sale amid fears that toddlers could suffer accidental overdoses.
Meanwhile, the labelling on dozens of other cough and cold remedies is being changed after new advice was issued by drug safety watchdogs.
But the Proprietary Association of Great Britain (PAGB), which represents the makers of the medicines, stressed that they were not being "banned" for use by older children and were still safe when used as directed.
Parents are now being advised to give children aged under 24 months paracetamol or ibuprofen to lower their temperature if they have a cold. Simple cough syrups containing glycerol, honey and lemon can also be given, as well as vapour rubs and inhalant decongestants.
The six products previously marketed for use by children under two, but which have now been taken off open sale, are: Asda Children's Chesty Cough Syrup, Boots Chesty Cough Syrup One Year Plus, Boots Sore Throat and Cough Linctus One Year Plus, Buttercup Infant Cough Syrup, CalCough Chesty and Bell's Children's Chesty Cough.
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