The Dangers of Melatonin in Children: A Problem of Overuse by Parents

The Dangers of Melatonin in Children: A Problem of Overuse by Parents

Throughout all of my years as a pediatrician, I have never witnessed the extensive abuse and overuse of any drug or therapy as widespread as what is happening with the current overuse of melatonin in children in the community in which I practice. I suspect and have very firm reason to believe that the overuse is in no way limited to this community alone. The issue is complex but it comes down to a basic tenet of pediatrics and parenting; “physician do no harm,” I would add in this case; “parents do no harm”.  Melatonin has become a mainstay of parenting in certain communities in recent years.

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Gay therapy ban ready for enacting Treating of children would be prohibited

Gay therapy ban ready for enacting Treating of children would be prohibited

A California bill to ban therapies to “change” sexual orientation in children and teens passed its final legislative hurdle late Thursday and now goes to California Gov. Jerry Brown for his signature.
“Few things are more offensive than child abuse and, frankly, that’s what these types of psychological treatments are,” said Sen. Ted W. Lieu of Torrance, author of Senate Bill 1172, which he introduced in February. “These attempts are quackery, and this kind of psychological abuse of children must stop.”

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TONY DIGIROLAMO

SENATOR IT IS YOUR PROGRESSIVE IDEOLOGY THAT IS THE QUACKERY THAT HAS OUR CHILDREN CONFUSED AND MISGUIDED.

Sir, homosexuality is still considered abnormal and immoral particularly to the church.
Psychology is responsible for this dramatic change now flooding the mainstream of everyday life. It was in 1973 when the American Psychological Association decided that homosexuality was no longer considered abnormal. They dropped it from the DSM, the Diagnostic Statistical Manual when it was revised.

And, all hell broke away from the boundaries of a religious, moral, self controlled nation. The very divisions we now see in every corner of society is battling to maintain and strengthen the things that remain. MORE AT CULTURESHOCKTV.COM