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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Melatonin is not dangerous at all.   [/quote]

If taken in small does and you know about it.  Many will even disagree with that.

I let one of my teens take a small dose of melatonin before bed.  We discuss with his doctor every year and he’s okay with this.

I would be livid if I was OP.  You shouldn’t sneak anything with the intention on having someone else take it without their knowledge.

No, I would not tell the parents but I’d encourage my kid to find new friends/team and I would say no to future sleepovers.  Telling parents isn’t effective at this age.  More often it causes more issues.  [/quote]

We gave melatonin to my tween for years, as needed and in small doses. We tried a new brand once, only because we ran out of the other, and he had an adverse reaction where he was literally unconscious. Couldn’t be woken up. EMTs called and everything. We were told that because melatonin is unregulated, dosage varies by brand regardless of what’s on the bottle, and there’s no way of telling what else is in there. I’ve always been crazy careful with what I give my kids for meds, but I, like everyone else, just assumed that melatonin was totally safe because it’s not a drug. The pharmacist said she’s heard of similar reactions in kids, although not as extreme as ours, and said to avoid it. [/quote]

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