FDA urges control of aspirin

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is calling on pharmacies not to sell aspirin to parents planning to give it to their children.

The move followed Caretaker Public Health Minister Pinij Charusombat's concerns about the possibility that children might be given the aspirin to reduce their fever and thus exposed to associated danger.

Although the aspirin has many benefits, an overdose or wrong use can be fatal.

Pinij expressed concerns about the widespread use of aspirin following a report that a nine-year-old girl died of excessive aspirin.

The Nation