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Letters: Toxic medicines
Nursery World,
18 October 2007
As your recent articles noted (News, 13 and 27 September), research at Southampton University has shown a clear link between artificial colourings and behavioural problems in children.
However, children are not only at risk of harm from additives in food and drinks, but, alarmingly, also from those in medicines, given when a child's immune system is already low. The list of ingredients for a low-dose steroid, given to children as well as to adults, does not make for comfortable reading. It includes E110, Sunset Yellow, E124, ponceau 4R, E132, indigo carmine, as well as E211, sodium benzoate. How can these...
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