Melatonin poisoning spiked
YUMA, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY-TV/ CNN) - Poisonings in children involving the sleep aid melatonin have increased dramatically.
Just last year poison control centers reported getting more than 52-thousand calls about children taking too much melatonin.
The centers for disease control and prevention says over the last decade these incidents have increased 530-percent.
During that time a 3-month-old and a 13-month-old died.
More than four thousand children were hospitalized but most did not need to go to a hospital.
Most cases involve children five years old and younger who accidentally get into bottles of melatonin.
