{"id":2344,"date":"2025-10-08T09:13:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T03:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doctors.bajajfinservhealth.in\/blogs\/?p=2344"},"modified":"2025-10-08T09:13:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T03:43:26","slug":"cough-syrup-tragedy-toxic-deg-claims-young-lives-in-mp-and-rajasthan-by-dr-almas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doctors.bajajfinservhealth.in\/blogs\/cough-syrup-tragedy-toxic-deg-claims-young-lives-in-mp-and-rajasthan-by-dr-almas\/","title":{"rendered":"Cough Syrup Tragedy: Toxic DEG Claims Young Lives in MP and Rajasthan By Dr. Almas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In August 2025, a nightmare unfolded in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan: 14 children, mostly under five, died from acute kidney failure after taking contaminated cough syrups like Coldrif and Nextro-DS. The culprit? Diethylene glycol (DEG), a toxic solvent found in batches at 48.6%\u2014hundreds of times the safe limit. Symptoms turned deadly fast: vomiting, pain, and kidney shutdown. Rural families, far from dialysis centers, were hit hardest.<br \/>\nThis echoes past scandals\u2014Gambia (2022), Jammu (2020)\u2014yet weak regulation, delayed testing, and overuse of syrups persist. <\/p>\n<p>What to Do:<br \/>\nParents: Skip syrups for kids under 6. Use saline, honey (over 1). Check for &#8220;DEG-free&#8221; labels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August 2025, a nightmare unfolded in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan: 14 children, mostly under five, died from acute kidney failure after taking contaminated cough syrups like Coldrif and Nextro-DS. The culprit? Diethylene glycol (DEG), a toxic solvent found in batches at 48.6%\u2014hundreds of times the safe limit. Symptoms turned deadly fast: vomiting, pain, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctors.bajajfinservhealth.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctors.bajajfinservhealth.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctors.bajajfinservhealth.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctors.bajajfinservhealth.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctors.bajajfinservhealth.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/doctors.bajajfinservhealth.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2347,"href":"https:\/\/doctors.bajajfinservhealth.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions\/2347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctors.bajajfinservhealth.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctors.bajajfinservhealth.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctors.bajajfinservhealth.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}