Regular use of melatonin to help kids sleep has become “exceedingly common,” with nearly 1 in 5 adolescents (19 percent) using it, according to research published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics.

When Varun Vohra, director of the Michigan Poison & Drug Information Center at Wayne State University School of Medicine, noticed more cases involving children who had ingested the sleep aid ...

In order to avoid adverse effects like these, parents should especially exercise caution when giving young children melatonin. While it's considered safe to give to some kids under doctor ...

Melatonin is a hormone the body makes to tell the brain that sleep-time is near. It is also a supplement in chewable tablets, gummies, and capsules. Some 18.5% of school-aged children, and 19.4% ...

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But melatonin’s ubiquity poses dangers for kids, finds a new study published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). Accidental ...

According to a recent report by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of calls to poison control for kids who took too much melatonin, mostly by accident, have increased ...

Poison control centers in the U.S. have seen a dramatic rise in reports of kids ingesting melatonin over the last decade. From 2012 to 2021, these incidents increased 530 percent, according to a ...

Sponsor Message But some experts worry that there isn't enough research about how regularly taking melatonin affects kids in the long term. Read Michael Schulson's full article in Undark.

(WYTV)- In this week’s Positive Parenting, we explore if melatonin is safe for children. According to the Center for Disease ...