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Medicines That
Commonly Harm Children
According to a Canadian study reported at the annual meeting of the
American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology, antibiotics and vaccines are the
medicines that most often cause adverse reactions in children. "There is relatively
little pediatric data on adverse reactions, which can range from rashes to potentially
fatal hypersensitivity". More than 1,500 Canadian cases were reviewed between 1985
and 1995 by Sandra R. Knowles and her colleagues at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center
in Toronto. In all, 1,800 drugs were implicated in this study.
The leading problems were caused from: Amoxicillin/Ampicillin with a
24% reaction rate, vaccines in general with a 19% reaction rate, Trimethoprim came in with
8%, Sulfamethoxazole (sulfa drug) at 8%, Erythromycin - was at 3%, and Penicillin also at
3% reaction rate.
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