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Cold medicines sicken 7,000 kids
About 7,000 children under the age of 11 are hospitalized in emergency rooms each year due to taking cough and cold medicines, the U.S. government said, quoting a study on both OTC and prescription medicines. About two-thirds of the cases were children who took the drugs without their parents' supervision, and the other one-third cases involved children who received the proper dosage and developed an allergic reaction.
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