I just read an article on the lastest announcement about kids and over the counter cold medicines.  You should never give them to kids under the age of 2 (which I don't think I ever did anyways), but there is also a warning about kids under the age of 6.  I remember when their noses were so stuffy they couldn't breathe at night, or they coughed and coughed and kept waking themselves up-- I would break out the icky stuff (as they called it)!  I was careful about the dosage, but it's scary to think that it could have been dangerous to them!

It is a good reminder, that kids bodies and organ systems do not function in the same manner as adults.  This goes for cough syrup, and for any other adult drugs-- pain relievers, etc.  And as my kids are now teens-- it goes for alcohol.  It's one more weapon in the dialog to explain why drinking is really harmful to a teenager.  Besides the bad choices and lowered inhibitions-- it is just physiologically harmful to their developing cells.  Scientific fact is going to get me a lot farther than "Just because I say so" in this battle.