FDA Consumer Magazine -- October 1994
Table of Contents

Avoiding Problems: Liquid Medication and Dosing Devices
Using household spoons to give liquid medication can cause problems, but so can some devices specifically designed to give medicines. Here's how to take advantage of the devices' benefits while avoiding the hazards.

Understanding Pet Food Labels
Much as reading human food labels helps in planning good human meals, knowing what to look for on a pet food label can help owners pick appropriate food for their pets.

Calming Fears, Easing Pain: Children's Anesthesia Tricky
To a child, pain and fear are inseparable. How to safely relieve both is a subject of growing debate and research. Only recently has a narcotic drug been approved specifically for children, and its use is controversial.

Stalking the Wild Mushroom
Poisonous mushrooms can cause stomach upset, dizziness, hallucinations, liver and kidney failure, coma--even death. And in North America, they are even harder to distinguish from nontoxic mushrooms than in most other parts of the world.

OTC Options: Controlling Dandruff
FDA banned 27 dandruff shampoo ingredients in 1990. But products containing any of the five ingredients FDA okayed for nonprescription use give with flaky scalps plenty of treatment choice.

(Hypertext updated by clb March 17, 1998)