NHS manager ordered to stop selling ‘sleep drug-laced’ children’s gummies | Children’s health

Guardian, a NHS manager, only prescription sleeping drug allegedly attached to the allegedly connected to the sale of children’s gum was stopped.

Magnesium Glycinate gums for children who are forced to sleep It has been sold since March last year The other job is by Nutrition Ignition, an EPSOM -based company owned by Sally Westcott, a clinical therapy at EPSOM and ST Helier NHS Trust.

Gum produced by China “A natural way to help your child sleep better” and announced on Facebook by Westcott “Particularly useful in children with ADHD and autism”.

However, ads and packaging, raspberry flavored desserts, only a doctor prescribed by a doctor to treat sleep problems in the UK is a significant level of melatonin, a hormone that is used to treat.

This week, he ordered the drug regulator Westcott to remove the gum from his company’s website and online retailer Amazon while researching. However, the product is available on Ebay.

Westcott said he had complied with the investigation and deliberately refused to sell a prescription substance.

Drugs and Health Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) were warned against gum by two mothers who bought the product online for their children.

Last week, Guardian was able to buy 60 gummy bathtubs for £ 19.49, including mail and packaging through a prescription Amazon. They came with shining five -star online investigations. A parent of a sleepless child described gums as “Godsend” and the other as “magic ..

Both had a photographer and the other working mothers in Fintech, who wanted to remain anonymous, and the other, gum contained more active ingredients than listed on the label.

One of the small children who were diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, the other, suspected of ADHD and autism, fell asleep just 30 minutes after eating gums.

Women assigned a reinforcement factory, an independent company to analyze gum. Guardian’s report said that they contain unlocked, but they contain pharmacologically relevant melatonin levels. The analysis contained every gumful 0.53 mg melatonin. The recommended start dose for children is 0.5 mg.

The additional factory concluded that the inclusion of melaton was illegal because it violated the 2012 Human Drugs Regulation.

“A child can soothe a child without a single gum clinical supervision,” the additional factory report said.

Mothers sent the report to Mhra at the beginning of this month. Amazon was also informed. This week, while searching for MHRA, gums were taken offline.

Mhra spokesman said: “Patient safety is our priority. Melatonin is an authorized drug in England and is likely to be classified as a drug that contains a component.

“If a product falls under a drug definition, it must have a marketing authority (‘license’) to be legally sold and supplied in the UK unless it is covered by a special exemption.”

“We take the reports very seriously and we can confirm that we are investigating these products more to determine which action is necessary. We cannot comment more about the details of this investigation.”

Westcott said in a statement: “We take concerns about product security, regulatory harmony and consumer trust.

“Currently, we are currently reviewing the information you provide about magnesium glicin gum. We have started an investigation on the subject to correctly understand the facts and we are in the process of more independent scientific test of our products.

“Nutrition ignition is a small enterprise and it does not sell products containing unconsciously not sold materials, and we only work with manufacturers that meet third -party guaranteed industrial standards; especially NSF [National Science Foundation] Certificate of conformity. “

The photographer said: “When you know what happened, it is terrible to read the investigations about children who fall asleep in a few minutes. Scandal to buy prescription drugs for children over the internet.

“This case sheds light on how irregular this industry is and questioned Amazon’s responsibility to allow children to marketing and selling to their parents.”

His friend said: “I am deeply concerned about what is happening. Melatonin is a drug foreseen in England, and parents/caregivers must be fully aware that they feed their children.”

“My daughter was diagnosed with ADHD and takes medication to manage. To help sleep at night, the doctor prescribed melatonin that he could not get, because with the magnesium gums, it may be at a dangerous level in the system.

Melatonin gums are present in China, in the United States and in some European countries, despite suspicion of long -term security. In the UK, a hidden market has developed for melatonin gums, especially among the parents of neuro Gudds.

Melatonin Online’s ready -made availability worried health professionals who say that long -term health effects on children are unknown.