nbcnewyork.comAASM melatonin health advisory for parents
Advisory telling parents to talk to their child's clinician before giving melatonin, to treat it like a medicine and store it out of reach, citing the 530% rise in pediatric melatonin ingestions reported to poison centres from 2012 to 2021.
- Years
- 2022–now
- Country
- United States
- Topic
- Patient safetySleep
- Asks people to
- Talk to someone
- Strategy
- Simple instruction
- Channel
- Website
- Audience
- ParentsParents
Evidence
NoneUnknown
No evaluation found. Background: CDC MMWR counted 260,435 pediatric melatonin ingestions 2012-2021; an FDA lab survey found children's melatonin products contained 0% to 667% of the labelled dose.
Sponsor (who paid)
- American Academy of Sleep Medicine NGO
Credits (who made it)
Not recorded yet.
Sources
- Pediatric Melatonin Ingestions - United States, 2012-2021 reference · 2022 · DOI 10.15585/mmwr.mm7122a1 · PMID 35653284
- A Survey of Melatonin in Dietary Supplement Products Sold in the United States reference · 2024 · DOI 10.1002/dta.3823 · PMID 39482109
- Here's What Parents Should Know About Melatonin and Kids news
Research notes
Created 2026-10-23 from the sleep campaign literature search (PubMed and web search; OpenAlex was unreachable), see docs/sleep-campaigns-literature.md. Findings are paraphrased from abstracts, not full texts; official URLs come from search results and were not opened. Advisory date inferred (2022) from coverage; AASM page not opened.
Record cases/aasm-melatonin-advisory.json, updated 2026-10-23· Link to this campaign