Miralax is not safe

[Anonymous]

Back in December of 2011, the FDA placed MiraLAX — a polyethylene glycol-containing blockbuster drug marketed by Merck & Co — on its Adverse Event Reporting System (AERS) in connection to “neuropsychiatric events.”

http://www.gutsense.org/gutsense/the-role-of-miralax-laxative-in-autism-dementia-alzheimer.html

[Anonymous]

I never trust information on a website that is then selling expensive pills as an alternative. SHOW ME MORE INFORMATION.

[Anonymous]

You can search Miralax on FDA's website. FDA decided not to take action. Any drug can be reported to FDA's adverse event reporting program by a patient, doctor, prescriber. It doesn't mean the drug caused the adverse event.

[Anonymous]

Thanks OP.

[Anonymous]

oooo, scary!

[Anonymous]

Thank you. So glad I read this. My 4 year old has been on this for about a month due to extreme constipation and to allow a tear to heal in his rectum. I am definitely taking him off!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can search Miralax on FDA's website. FDA decided not to take action. Any drug can be reported to FDA's adverse event reporting program by a patient, doctor, prescriber. It doesn't mean the drug caused the adverse event.

Of course, this is true.

I can't believe anyone on this forum believes the OP's link WHICH IS AN ADVERTISING LINK TO ANOTHER PRODUCT has any validity.

Go to www.fda.gov to see what adverse event reporting really means.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank you. So glad I read this. My 4 year old has been on this for about a month due to extreme constipation and to allow a tear to heal in his rectum. I am definitely taking him off!!!

Do not take your kid off a drug recommended by a doctor because someone on an internet message board posted a link to a website of a snake oil competitor of the drug your kid's doctor recommended.

If you need to, contact his pediatrician to discuss.

As other posters have said, being listed in the FDA database, with a note that FDA didn't decide to investigate means absolutely nothing about the safety of a drug.

[Anonymous]

An adverse event report to the FDA is not based on causality. It just has to be an unexpected event that coincides with taking a drug. It is self-reported.

[Anonymous]

Any adverse event associated with any drug has to reported to the FDA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank you. So glad I read this. My 4 year old has been on this for about a month due to extreme constipation and to allow a tear to heal in his rectum. I am definitely taking him off!!!

Do not take your kid off a drug recommended by a doctor because someone on an internet message board posted a link to a website of a snake oil competitor of the drug your kid's doctor recommended.

If you need to, contact his pediatrician to discuss.

As other posters have said, being listed in the FDA database, with a note that FDA didn't decide to investigate means absolutely nothing about the safety of a drug.

+1 ... Honestly, were you just born yesterday?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any adverse event associated with any drug has to reported to the FDA.

Only if the patient reports it to the doctor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank you. So glad I read this. My 4 year old has been on this for about a month due to extreme constipation and to allow a tear to heal in his rectum. I am definitely taking him off!!!

Wow, now I know how Jenny McCarthy did it.

[Anonymous]

I didn't even take notice of any advertisements. I thought the information in the article was pretty clear, and alarming. After all, how many other medications had been found to be harmful years after they were initially approved by the FDA?

I take and head all the warning signs....I highly doubt that any doctor has done much research on Miralax beyond their free lunch with the big-pharma rep.

[Anonymous]

.I highly doubt that any doctor has done much research on Miralax beyond their free lunch with the big-pharma rep.

Miralax is OTC now which means it has been around a LONG time.