What is the drug? DS' life was saved by an off label use drug that hadn't been approved for kids his age. I am eternally grateful that the doctor had been keeping up to date on research and small studies being done.

Anonymous wrote:why not talk to the doctor and ask why they prescribed. as said before plenty of medications have studies that have been ongoing to allow for prescribing outside the approved windows while they await approval

Or even if the manufacturer never intends to apply for such pediatric approval.

From the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP):

Off-label use does not imply an improper use and certainly does
not imply an illegal use or a contraindication based on evidence. Explicit evidence-based warnings and contraindications are provided in product labels. The distinction between lack of FDA approval of a use or dosing regimen and explicit warnings or contraindications against uses is important medically and le
gally.

Uses of Drugs Not Described in the Package Insert (Off-Label Uses)
https://watermark02.silverchair.com/pe0702000181.pdf

The AMA and AAFP have published similar statements consistent with this.

However, it is possible that OP is referring to an explicit counterindication, which would be a different matter entirely. OP, what is the drug?

why not talk to the doctor and ask why they prescribed. as said before plenty of medications have studies that have been ongoing to allow for prescribing outside the approved windows while they await approval

OP, the basic criterion by which prescribing providers are judged is whether they are following the standard of care for providers in that region. If you name the medication which has you concerned, the posters here can figure out whether that breaches standard of care.

When you write "medication for a kid which should only be prescribed if person is at least 18yrs of ages," the only interpretation I can think of is that you are under the misapprehension that medications not "FDA approved" for children are somehow prohibited from being prescribed. As noted so many times above, that's just wrong.

But if you post the medication name, we may well find out that the AAP or other professional organization actually lists it in standard protocols. We just won't know without the name.

Anonymous wrote:Op plenty of medications are used off label all the time by excellent physicians, including ones approved for 18 plus that are sometimes used for minors.

It’s possible you went to a quack but the fact they rx’d something approved for 18+ is in no way proof of that.

Exactly. Of course, OP is free to demonstrate the lack of knowledge of how medical care works here, but then it is still a nominally free country. We get to do all kinds of things that make us look silly.