Super Nanny Supports Asthma Education Campaign

If you were only to look at the title of this post, Super Nanny Supports Asthma Education Campaign, then you’d likely think that this would be a positive post helping raise awareness about asthma. However, the new educational campaign – ASTHMyths, which is sponsored by the Allergy & Asthma Network Mothers of Asthmatics (AANMA), is also co-sponsored by Merck & Co, Inc. Yes, the makers of SINGULAIR are partnering with the Super Nanny and a nonprofit to raise awareness about asthma.

This isn’t the first time that “Big Pharma” has joined forces to create an awareness campaign about “insert disease du jour here”, but since I have a vested interest in the negative side effects of SINGULAIR, I wanted to post about this.

SINGULAIR is known to cause depression in its patients, including children as young as five years old. Yes, that’s right, my five-year-old daughter suffered from depression as a result of using SINGULAIR. We thought it was a wonder drug as it cut our trips to the ER for asthma flare-ups in half. However, when she started talking about dying and no one caring if she was dead, I began to worry.

After a call to our pediatrician, she suggested that we stop the medicine. If the problem persisted, then the pediatrician wanted to see Ava. If the problem stopped, then we were advised to never give her SINGULAIR again. The problem completely stopped and within a week she was back to her happy self. However, we are still dealing with the significant anxiety that started shortly after she started the medication. Right now, we have no end in sight to the end of this sometimes-crippling anxiety that she experiences.

One other point I wanted to make is that I’m not really fond of the Super Nanny. If she had been called to our house to address my daughter’s nonstop crying…for hours every night…she’d have likely placed her in time out to “fix” her manipulations. Only a parent, truly in tune with their child, would be able to see that my daughter’s episodes were not her trying to manipulate me. Instead, it is obvious that something was very, very wrong. Sorry for the tangential Super Nanny rant, not a fan of hers, never have been.

I want to thank Jenna from Parents for Safety for the heads-up on this new project. Jenna works tirelessly to educate parents on the neuropsychiatric side effects of Singulair. Thanks Jenna!

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