As melatonin sales have skyrocketed in the U.S., more kids seem to have ingested the supplement by mistake.
Poison control centers in the U.S. have seen a dramatic rise in reports of kids ingesting melatonin over the last decade.from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Thursday. The largest yearly increase occurred from 2019 to 2020, when reports spiked by 38 percent.
"This might be related to increased accessibility of melatonin during the pandemic, as children spent more time at home because of stay-at-home orders and school closures," the CDC report said."Further, reports of increasing sleep disturbances during the pandemic might have led to increased availability of melatonin in the home."of mostly U.S. residents found that worries about Covid-19 were a consistent predictor of insomnia.
"Many of them are not in any child-resistant packaging," Wang said."There’s no regulations on how they should be packaged. A child could get into a significant amount of them."Osterhoudt said his hospital has seen"a huge rise in melatonin ingestions and melatonin exposures," so the CDC report"corroborated what we felt we’d been seeing at the bedside."
In one of the deaths, he said,"there was even reported malicious use, probably someone trying to sedate a child on purpose." Since melatonin is considered a dietary supplement in the U.S., it does not require approval from the Food and Drug Administration and can be purchased over the counter.
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