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Doctors will tell you it\u2019s safe, but MiraLAX is a dangerous drug for kids.<\/p>\nDoctors will tell you it\u2019s safe, but MiraLAX is a dangerous drug for kids.<\/p>\n
There are over 85,000 members of a Facebook group of parents against MiraLAX.<\/a> They will tell you this over-the-counter drug harmed their children.<\/p>\n One such parent is Mike Koehler.<\/p>\n Koehler lives in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin. Fifty-three years old, he runs a staffing company. For nearly a decade, Koehler has studied how MiraLAX is a dangerous drug for kids.<\/p>\n At age four, Koehler\u2019s son Bradley started wetting the bed. So, Koehler took Bradley to a urologist.<\/p>\n It turned out that Bradley was severely constipated.<\/p>\n Moreover, the impacted stool was putting pressure on his bladder, causing Bradley to wet the bed.<\/p>\n The urologist recommended Bradley begin taking MiraLAX<\/p>\n MiraLAX is a laxative. It helps relieve constipation by increasing water in the intestines, stimulating bowel movements.<\/p>\n But what the doctor didn’t tell the Koehlers is that the drug is not safe when used for chronic constipation.<\/p>\n Or that the FDA never approved it for use in children.<\/p>\n In fact, the FDA approved MiraLAX only for people who are 17 years of age and older.<\/p>\n Using it for treating chronic constipation is off-label. The manufacturers do not recommend this. They also do not recommend it for kids. The manufacturers know that MiraLAX is a dangerous drug for kids.<\/p>\n Yet, supervised by a urologist, Bradley took MiraLAX for almost five years.<\/p>\n As a result, he suffered from seizures, psychotic and uncontrollable behavior, and an obsessive-compulsive disorder. Doctors also diagnosed him with temporal lobe epilepsy.<\/p>\n Bradley had been a normal child who was developing typically.<\/p>\n However, after taking MiraLAX continuously, he became out of control.<\/p>\n The pieces of the puzzle came together for the Koehlers after they read a New York Times<\/em> article on January 6, 2015<\/a>.<\/p>\n The article, \u201cScrutiny for Laxatives as a Childhood Remedy,\u201d enumerated the FDA\u2019s myriad safety concerns about MiraLAX\u2019s sole ingredient, polyethylene glycol 3350 or PEG 3350.<\/p>\n Given to children as young as six months old, mRNA vaccines for COVID-19 also contain polyethylene glycol.<\/p>\n This is not yet clear.<\/p>\n However, we know that PEG is a long-chain\u00a0polymer\u00a0of ethylene oxide.<\/p>\n And that several toxic chemicals, byproducts of the manufacturing process used to make pharmaceutical-grade PEG 3350<\/a>, can harm human health.<\/p>\n Scientists have also found that PEG exposure destroys beneficial gut bacteria which, in turn, can damage the gut and the brain.<\/p>\n Stanford scientists discovered<\/a> that exposure to PEG caused a loss of beneficial bacteria in the gut in just three days in 2018.<\/p>\n Three years later, Ohio-based researchers published a peer-reviewed article<\/a> showing that PEG alters the microbiome<\/a> in rodents.<\/p>\n We also know that PEG 3350 exposure leads to a reduction in bile salts<\/a> in laboratory rats, in addition to destroying beneficial bacteria.<\/p>\n This suggests PEG 3350 causes liver damage.<\/p>\n MiraLAX became widely available as an over-the-counter drug in 2006.<\/p>\n That year, FDA clinical reviewer, Dr. Karen Feibus, M.D., documented her contention<\/a> that MiraLAX is a dangerous drug for kids.<\/p>\n \u201cPEG inhibited most of the metabolic activities of the fecal flora, and this was evidenced by decreases in total short chain\u00a0fatty acids, butyrate, acetate and fecal bacteria mass,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n Aside from its toxicity, there is another strike against MiraLAX. Using laxatives to fix constipation doesn’t address the root causes of the problem.<\/p>\n \u201cThis product is being abused in terms of its use as a laxative in children,\u201d retired nurse practitioner Lyn Redwood, who has been a health care provider for over three decades, told me.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are so many other ways to address \u2026 constipation. By giving these children a laxative, doctors are avoiding identifying and treating the root cause of the constipation and just treating the symptoms,\u201d Redwood said.<\/p>\n Do mRNA Vaccines Have a Polyethylene Glycol Problem?<\/a> Doctors will tell you it\u2019s safe, but MiraLAX is a dangerous drug for kids. There are over 85,000 members of a Facebook group of parents against MiraLAX. They will tell you this over-the-counter drug harmed their children. One such parent is Mike Koehler. Koehler lives in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin. Fifty-three years old, he runs a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[5269,532,4],"tags":[12943,12942,8860,12944],"yoast_head":"\nThe MiraLAX journey began<\/strong><\/h3>\n
MiraLAX, a dangerous drug for kids<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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