Seven & one-half years ago, as a dutiful father of an infant girl, I was despatched late one evening, to the local drug store chain, to get some infant rehydration brand solution, on direct orders from The High Command (my wife), quoting The Supreme High Command, our daughter's Pediatrician.

The national brand name ends in 'lite'.

Not being any representative example of any consuming public, as well as actually reading ingredient labels, knowing what the ingredients are, & what they can or cannot do, in reviewing the infant rehydration syrup, I went BALLISTIC (in my mind) as to the POISON in it! 

"How dare anyone get this CRAP near my infant daughter, let alone suggest ingesting it", I said to myself, as my blood pressure spiked.

Specifically, the product had aspartame (medically proven to cause petit maul syndrome and strokes in infants at tiny dosage levels), red dye #40 (causes cancer) & artificial cherry flavoring (full of carcinogens).

I went & made my own simple purified water and sea salt solution with some natural flavor, gave the appropriate dosage to our daughter (over my brain-washed wife's objections)& our daughter was fine the next day.

I also railed to the Pediatrician never to recommend this brand again.

I further called up a colleague, at the Big Pharma company making this brand, who KNOWINGLY where selling such POISON.  Well that phone call embarrassed them enough to pull the aspartame and red 40; but since then, they have now placed TOXIC sucralose (Splenda) in this brand.

Can anyone trust such horrifically EVIL companies?  Absolutely NOT!

PS - Splenda ia now running early morning national TV ads saying they are ":ZERO CALORIES" for home baking & use...this is A FLAT OUT LIE; high intensity sweeteners, not in the table top sachets, are bulked with caloric maltodextrin, dextrose, polyols, fake fibers, etc.

It once again comes down to money. Testing rats in my opinion is just a smoke screen for the larger lab rats = Society!

It is plain and simple: if you can't pronoucne it and it was not here 10,000 years ago, don't ingest it!

I keep reading on Mercola about avoiding brown rice syrup - as a source of MSG and yet its one of the main ingredients in his Coco Casava bars. 

Sometimes I get very confused.

Unless your child's life is at stake or your child is in a lot of pain, stay away from giving your children harmful drugs.

Learn about the side-effects and use common sense; will my child get better regardless of taking the medication? If the answer is yes, don't give it to your child.

I can't think of too many medications that cure anything that lifestyle changes or your own immune system wouldn't take care of.