FDA Warns Against Codeine, Tramadol For Young Kids, Some Teens, Nursing Moms

(April 21, 2017, 9:46 AM EDT) -- SILVER SPRING, Md. — The Food and Drug Administration on April 20 warned that children under 12, adolescents with fast metabolisms or who have had tonsillectomies and nursing mothers should not take prescription products containing the opioids codeine and tramadol for pain or cough suppression because of the serious risk of depressed breathing or death in them or breastfeeding babies....

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