{"id":76057,"date":"2025-08-18T18:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T18:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/76057\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T18:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T18:41:07","slug":"warning-issued-over-kids-magnesium-supplement-gummies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/76057\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning issued over kids’ magnesium supplement gummies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Melatonin can be given to children over the age of six for sleep management if other methods have failed.<\/p>\n

It is often used for children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or delayed sleep wake phase disorder (DSWPD) and for the short-term treatment of insomnia. <\/p>\n

Children can be prescribed a starting dose of 1mg, up to 5mg of melatonin per day and no serious side effects have been identified in studies of children.<\/p>\n

The gummies in question were recommended for children above the age of four to help support “calm, focus and digestion”.<\/p>\n

Magnesium glycinate is supposed to help support muscle function, improve sleep quality and regulate the body’s nervous system.<\/p>\n

Parents are being advised to dispose of the item at a local pharmacy and report any side effects to the MHRA Yellow Card scheme, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Nutrition Ignition brand website has now been deleted and products have been removed from online retailers such as Amazon and eBay.<\/p>\n

As reported by The Guardian, external<\/a> in June, the gummy brand was owned by Surrey-based NHS clinical therapy lead Sally Westcott.<\/p>\n

She was ordered to remove the raspberry-flavoured gummies from sale more than a month ago by the MHRA after they were alerted to the sweets’ hidden ingredients by two concerned mothers.<\/p>\n

The women had the gummies tested when they noticed their young children falling asleep more quickly than usual after consuming them and it was then discovered that they contained melatonin. <\/p>\n

Westcott, who is yet to comment on the MHRA report, said in June that she had “never knowingly sold products containing undeclared ingredients”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melatonin can be given to children over the age of six for sleep management if other methods have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[102,6636,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-76057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-nutrition","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}