Johanna Barry recounts the terrifying experiences her daughter Makenzie endured during her toddler years, involving night terrors, hallucinations, and an inability to sleep. Makenzie, too young to speak at the time, later described her vivid visions to her parents.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.When Johanna Barry noticed her daughter Makenzie lashing out, she put it down to the “terrible twos”.
Now nine years old, Makenzie has just started sleeping in her own room again, five years since her parents took her off montelukast – a chewable flavoured tablet used to treat asthma butJohanna Barry with daughter Makenzie, who suffered night terrors and hallucinations that her parents attributed to the asthma drug she was taking at the time.
But by 2019, thousands of reports of neuropsychiatric episodes, including dozens of suicides, in patients prescribed the drug had piled up on internet forums and in the FDA’s tracking system.In Australia, drugs containing montelukast have been associated with more than 200 adverse events reported to the Therapeutic Goods Administration in the past decade. There have been 15 events reported this year alone, including three suicides.
Australians have been prescribed drugs containing montelukast on more than 40,000 occasions in the past year, Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme data reveals.Results of the group’s work, which are preliminary and have not been previously reported or made public, were presented to a limited audience at the American College of Toxicology meeting in Austin, Texas, last Wednesday.
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