**Attention parents on Flist - core kids' medicine recall**

May 03, 2010 12:18

Mom told me that there's a massive "voluntary" recall of many common children's medicines ( Read more... )

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mmouse15 May 3 2010, 19:28:51 UTC
Thanks for passing that along, Myrr. Damnit, most of the meds I have fall into this catagory, and just as B is suffering from his first ever allergy.

I HATE when this happens.

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okami_myrrhibis May 3 2010, 20:25:08 UTC
Aww - allergies suck regardless of age.

Bingo - these are the core meds, I think, in most medicine cabinets - and for many children, even when they "Can" move up to tablets, don't (I know middle of the night, less swallowing I have to have him do = win).

I find it quite interesting that ALL of them are liquid. I have to replace my mom's meds for K as well :(

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okami_myrrhibis May 4 2010, 00:32:31 UTC
As far as I'm aware it's only the name brand.

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okami_myrrhibis May 4 2010, 00:43:25 UTC
Icon LUV!! From where?

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anon_decepticon May 3 2010, 22:04:26 UTC
I got an email about this today, because I work in quality for a J&J company (although not the company in question.) J&J tends to be pretty hardcore about this sort of thing; they'd rather take the PR hit that comes with issuing a recall than risk causing harm to the consumer, even if the risk is remote. To give you an idea what I mean, last year my company put out a recall on a product that was shipped on a certain type of wooden pallet, because the pallets smelled kinda funny. Since they couldn't be 100% sure the product hadn't been affected by whatever was causing the musty smell, they pulled all the affected lots ( ... )

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okami_myrrhibis May 4 2010, 00:40:03 UTC
Lucky me at least, I have 3 of 4 in the NDC being recalled. Now that they have a specific ndc/input macro I can see if I'm still affected.

But I agree. With meds, something like dosage of the active ingredient isn't something to chance. Esp given how many parents don't dbl check diff medications aren't duplicating/overlapping. My ex liked to give me shit about how many Dimetapp & Triaminics I had - but when I was preggo I was able to take something when I got a cold. If a toddler can take, was better than asthmatic mother who couldn't breathe or sleep.

IMO both adult & kids meds need to have the Tylenol/Motrin taken out of them, so folks treat what they actually HAVE for symptoms.

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