 [ Symptoms ] what is an infection or infectious arthritis of the knee and how is it treated [ Disease ] melatonin actually has some data in regards to children dosing anywhere from 2 5 milligrams could be used in a child but once again we want to find out why is the child not sleeping pediatrician should always be consulted first before even starting any types of medications like this it could be related to possibly they are starting school they are anxious maybe they are not sleeping at night because their room is noisy so we have to find out really what are the root causes of the problems rather than go right ahead to medicating them so as a pharmacist i would say to patients you know what let is talk to the pediatrician first and let is see what is going on before we start a child on melatonin you know with most of these products once again we do not really have a lot of data to go by so we do not know long term use in some of these products how it is going to affect the child children are not little adults a lot of people i think are confused by that their livers and their kidneys are not developed like yours and mine so when they get a drug or they get any type of product in them they are going to react a lot differently than we are so we want to make sure that people exercise caution