When Jeanie Ward’s three-and-a-half-year-old daughter experienced constipation symptoms that weren’t resolving, she consulted her doctor who suggested she use MiraLAX. However, within ten days, sweet little Nicole Ward was having near psychiatric events with paranoia, mood swings, aggression, and rage- behaviors that were TOTALLY out of character for her. (Even though it is no recommended for anyone under the age of 17, MiraLAX is often prescribed to infants and toddlers.)
Ward was obviously horrified and worried to see her daughter’s behavior change so rapidly. And by the second grade, Nicole was still different. She explained in her own words, “I was a very, very happy child. When I was two, I was running around playing. In second grade I started hating everybody. I wanted to kill everybody. I’m mad that this happened to me.”
So, Jeanie isn’t taking the hell their family has been through, lying down. Instead, she’s joined a group of 4,700 other concerned parents on the Facebook group “Parents Against Miralax.” Together they are banding together to stop the recommendation of MiraLAX, specifically the ingredient polyethylene glycol (PEG 3350), to young children. (In case you didn’t know, PEG 3350 is the same toxic chemical found in antifreeze.)
An FDA study is also currently underway at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia after they received over 160 reports of adverse side effects in children following the use of MiraLAX.
Bayer, the maker of MiraLAX, has confirmed that PEG 3350 is safe for long and short-term use in kids, regardless of the label, even though the product isn’t labeled for use in the pediatric population. (What?)
If you have kids and aren’t using a product like MiraLAX, what do you use?
Source: IJR
