Bhubaneswar: The Ministry of health and Family Welfare has issued an advisory to all states and union territories, including Odisha, for judicious of use of cough syrups for children below 5 years of age.

The Ministry issued the advisory in the wake of the recent incidents of child death allegedly due to toxic cough syrups in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.

The advisory issued by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of the Union Government has detailed suggestions to ensure judicious prescribing and dispensing of cough syrups for children. In its advisory the Ministry clearly stated that most of the cough illness in children are self-limiting and often resolve without pharmacological intervention, said the Health and Family Welfare Department of the state government today.

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