CDC: Cough, cold meds sending kids to ER

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• About 7,000 children annually go to emergency rooms because of cold meds
  
• In about 2/3 of cases, kids took medicine unsupervised
  
• More than three-quarters of cases involved kids ages 2 to 5
  
• Most reported symptoms: hives, itching, drowsiness, unresponsiveness
  
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