Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Warning_ Over-the-Counter Melatonin Risks for Kids | The Real Reason You’re Not Sleeping

5 Jul 2025

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A pediatrician warns that over-the-counter melatonin products for kids have wildly inconsistent doses, some containing up to 10 times the labeled amount. The American Pediatric Association flags melatonin toxicity as a growing concern in young children.

The caveat to a lot of the over the counter melatonin things with kids is the American Pediatric association put out a warning on this because many of the random melatonins you buy over the counter can have 10 to 20 times more melatonin than that's on the container. So we'll say 1 or 2 milligrams is 20 or 30. Yeah. And the kids can actually. For kids. For young kids, you can actually get melatonin toxicity.

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