The FDA says that parents should stop using teething tablets because there have been reports of serious adverse events and perhaps deaths because of the inconsistent amounts of highly diluted homeopathic belladonna content in them. Perhaps the FDA should consult a few of the many homeopathy skeptics that maintain homeopathy has only a placebo effect and is therefore useless.
The FDA depends on Laboratory Analysis of Homeopathic Teething Tablets (a ruse) to support their alert. The results in Table 4 are of particular interest. http://www.fda.gov/drugs/drugsafety/informationbydrugclass/ucm538669.htm
For example, (cited below) the conclusion of this randomized double blind placebo controlled research study, of 253 patients, given homeopathic 30C belladonna was that there was no difference between the homeopathy and placebo groups.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14651731
This case report from France https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21194906 describes the treatment of a two year old who ingested several berries from a live deadly nightshade plant. The child was seen in the emergency room, kept for observation, treated symptomatically (probably with homeopathy) and released within 48 hours. No permanent adverse effects were documented or reported. I have thus far been unable to find any reported deaths in the literature that could be directly attributed to either the live belladonna berries or the less than 1 mg belladonna content of homeopathic teething tablets.
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