Send Parents Worried About Restoralax's Neuropsych Effects to the Pharmacist

April 2017

Parents will ask whether polyethylene glycol (PEG 3350, Restoralax, etc) causes neuropsychiatric effects in children.

This is based on a small number of reports of tics, aggression, and anxiety...in kids using PEG laxatives for a few days to years.

But there's no proof that any of these symptoms are due to PEG.

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