BHOPAL/JAIPUR: Alarm bells are ringing over the deaths of 12 children in MP and Rajasthan following complications after use of cough syrups, prompting the Centre to issue an advisory on Friday against prescribing cold and cough medications to children aged below 2. The advisory to all states and UTs by Directorate General of Health Services came even as the Union health ministry claimed that none of samples picked up from MP contained diethylene glycol or ethylene glycol — toxins known to cause severe kidney damage. The samples were collected after there were reports linking the deaths of children from renal failure to consumption of contaminated cough syrups. With the Centre ruling out contamination in the cough syrup samples from MP, the mystery over the cause of kidney failure in ch

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