Melatonin Use Prevalent Among Youth, New Parent Survey Finds
Nearly one in five school-aged children and preteens now take melatonin for sleep, according to new research.
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Nearly one in five school-aged children and preteens now take melatonin for sleep, according to new research.
Nearly 20 percent of five- to 13-year-olds take melatonin, ballooning from just one percent six years ago and causing scientists to 'sound the alarm' over its increasingly common usage.
"In 2022, we started noticing a lot of parents telling us that their healthy child was regularly taking melatonin," sleep researcher Lauren Hartstein said.
Nearly one in five school-aged children and preteens now take melatonin for sleep, and some parents routinely give the hormone to preschoolers, according to new CU Boulder research.
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