WASHINGTON (AP) - The companies that make over-the-counter cough

and cold products say they should not be given to children under

the age of 4.

Pediatricians have been sharply critical of how the drug makers

were marketing the remedies even though there is little evidence

that they work on young children.

The president of the Consumer Healthcare Products Association

says the companies are making the voluntarily change "out of an

overabundance of caution."

The manufacturers are also adding a warning label to their

products telling parents not to give young children antihistamines

just to make them sleepy.

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