McNeil Consumer Healthcare is voluntarily recalling over 40 over-the-counter pain, fever, and allergy medications for infants and children, including certain forms of Tylenol, Motrin, Benadryl, and Zyrtec.
The medications are being recalled because some have been found to contain higher concentrations of ingredients than they are supposed to. In addition, McNeil Consumer Healthcare states that some of the medications 'may contain inactive ingredients that may not meet internal testing requirements' or 'may contain tiny particles' and that some of the raw materials used to make the products were contaminated with bacteria. No bacteria were found in the finished products though.
Parents who have any of the affected over-the-counter medications should stop using them and can get a full refund or a coupon for a replacement by contacting McNeil. They do state that there have been no reports of 'adverse medical events' and that the recall is a 'precautionary measure,' with a remote 'potential for serious medical events.'
Recalled over-the-counter medications for infants and children include certain lots of:
- Tylenol Infants' Drops
- Children's Tylenol Suspension
- Children's Tylenol Plus Suspension
- Motrin Infants' Drops
- Children's Motrin Suspension
- Children's Motrin Cold Suspension
- Children's Zyrtec
- Children's Benadryl Allergy liquids in bottles
You can see the full list of recalled medications, including NDC numbers at www.mcneilproductrecall.com.
According to the latest reports, the recalled medicines were made at one plant and lots of these medications made at other plants are not affected by the recall and may still be on store shelves.
If you need to use one of these medications, you might look for an alternative form of the medication, such as a chewable tablet, a box from a lot that hasn't been recalled, or another brand or generic form of the medication which has not been affected by the recall at all.
Related:
McNeil Product Recall Refund Information
FDA Tylenol Recall News Release
Don't Panic - Your Child has Fever
Coughs and Cough Syrup
Dos and Don'ts of Treating Kids' Allergy Symptoms
Tylenol Recall 2011
I notice that McNeil never tells us how to get the money back or product exchanged in this “recall”.
Perhaps About.com could help us track down where to contact them for exchanges or refunds?
This recall is for any of the products listed that have not expired. It is not by lot number , so you cannot get another lot number, you must buy a different brand.
Way to go Johnson & Johnson. When is someone going to get it? One recall after another. Who is at the wheel? Is this about greed and not caring about what they are packaging. I would be totally embarrassed if I worked for this company. It seems the only thing that CEO “Bill Weldon” is worried about is the TWO ocean front properties he purchased for 8.5 million dollars and the huge bonus he received. I wouldn’t want this jerk making any decisions for me. They should have invested that money into Mcneil. How many jobs are going to be affected by this? I am really surprised your stock stays afloat, or is that a scam too? Mr. McNeil is rolling in is grave, thanks to you and your blood sucking corporation. You should all be fired and held accountable
Just to get it clear. I have been reading the letter and read it over and it says ( all products not expired) but if you read after that it also says certain NDC#. It is a little confusing but when you read it over a couple of time you see that it does say certain. I work for a company as QA and we have to read all these letters to see what that company has done and use it as a example for training purpose. I have one of the products and I was giving it to my 18 month old since last night but I’ve had this product for a few months back and used it then. Thank god it wasn’t something bad an they caught this now were it does or it does cause any serious harm. Any meds that are not manufactured the way they are suppose to when FDA approved it shouldn’t of gone out at all. Alot is human error cause machines just fill up what you tell it to and QA plays a big roll. So if it doesn’t have the NDC# That is on the list you don’t have to throw it out. If it was everything believe they wouldn’t make a list it would just say all infant and children products. Just giving my comments.
This really explains a lot. This past weekend my 1 yr old had a fever that both motrin and tylenol combined were not breaking. I took her to the pediatrician Tuesday where they measured her temp at 103.4, after I gave her tylenol. They gave me a script for antibiotics and told me to continue tylenol and motrin. I went to the pharmacy to fill the script and my daughter had a seizure in the middle of the pharmacy. When she got to the hospital her temp was 104.3. The damn tylenol and motrin did nothing to help her. Just looked up the bottles of motrin and tylenol and of course her bottles were recalled. This is just lovely.
I’d love to find an executive at Johnson and Johnson and shove these medications right where they belong. This is the second recall I have been through with them. I will NEVER purchase one of their products again!
My daughter threw up from taking the Benedryl and I had no idea until now what it was from! No adverse effects my a**! I was pretty much overdosing my child! I will never buy any of these products again!
Well my beautiful (and otherwise totally healthy) niece may not have made it through becuase of this recall. She had an ear infection and Mom was told to give her Motrin and Benadryl late Wed into Thursday morning (as well as an antibiotic) – she had a seizure @ 5am in the morning and luckily my sister awoke to her movements. She was rushed to the hospital, left size temporarly paralyzed and was not very responsive. Luckily we are very blessed – she is a tough little cookie, was in the Pediatric ICU and pulled through but this could have been so much worse. I really hope there aren’t any tragic stories related to this recall as I am just now finding out about it. This will surely be dealt with accordingly given the outlandish ER bills my family is going to incur as well as the trauma of the whole incident. Just blessed that our baby is ok and at least now we know why – the doctor’s were baffled!
Interesting because recently both my daughters were given Motrin for different health reasons and both are now complaining of tummy aches for a few weeks…coinsedence? I think NOT!
There is an error in the article. It is not certain *lot* numbers that have been recalled. Per the McNeil website (as of 5/2/10), it is entire product lines (as identified by NDC codes–not lot numbers) that have been recalled. McNeil has recently updated the website so you can just input the NDC# to see if your product has been recalled; alternatively you can browse the list of recalled medications.
Again–if your product has been recalled, you will need to go with a generic alternative to the name brand medication. All lots for a particular brand have been recalled (as of 5/2/10).
Still no information on refunds, so I would suggest keeping the bottles until further notice.
All lots for a particular brand have been recalled (as of 5/2/10).
What doesn’t seem to be real clear is whether or not there are these same products on store shelves with other NDC numbers that weren’t in the recall, since they do state that they were ‘recalling all lots that have not yet expired of certain over-the-counter (OTC) Children’s and Infants’ liquid products.’
Does that mean all lots of certain grape flavored concentrated Tylenol infant drops with an NDC number of 50580-144-01, but there could be other grape flavored drops with a different NDC number?
I changed the blog post since it does seem more likely that they meant all lots for all of the brands and the ‘certain’ just pertained to the particular brands and products in the recall.
They could have put a lot more detail in their press release, especially things like how much of a ‘higher concentration’ was in the recalled products and what kind of ‘tiny particles’ they found.
They do now state that they are ‘offering two options for consumers who have purchased products affected by this recall. You can receive either a refund for the average retail price of the product or a coupon for a free replacement (s) when the product becomes available again,’ and that ‘you can do this by selecting one of the three ways to contact us on the right side of our http://www.mcneilproductrecall.com home page. To process your refund or coupon you will need the NDC number and Lot number from the product that has been recalled.’
Just had to process 5 items (my kids were just sick and now the little one is sick again) – here is the recall site for processing refunds/recalls and finding out if your product is affected. It’s fairly straightforward. http://www.mcneilproductrecall.com/page.jhtml?id=/include/new_recall.inc
Do not thow away those bottles my friends…. When your kids are diagnosed with something wierd in the future and you are asking yourself (Did the medicine I gave them have something to do with this illness??) you will have the proof in your hand… This is another case of the big corporation screwing the little guy… How about they tell us what the risks are of giving this junk to our kids??
How about future side effects? Or maybe just telling us the truth of what is in the medicine…. I have a suspect there is more going on here than we are being told…
My Daughter threw up when I had given her some infant Tylenol as well
she was only 6 months old!!! MY NDC # is 50580-143-15
From earlier post: Do not thow away those bottles my friends…. When your kids are diagnosed with something wierd in the future and you are asking yourself (Did the medicine I gave them have something to do with this illness??) you will have the proof in your hand
Hmmm …. Your logic is flawed — not sure this proves a causal relationship. I’m pissed as all hell that I exposed my 11-month old daughter to recalled infant Tylenol over the past few months. At the same time, I can’t logically claim any future health problem she encounters is related to the Tylenol she consumed.
My 3 1/2 year old was on Children’s Zyrtech (24 hour) for the first time ever due to allergies and after 5 days he had extreme agitation/moodiness, so we stopped the medication and it took several days to get it out of his system (terrible agitation the whole time). He then got diarreah 5 days later, then vomitted on the 6th day after stopping the medicine, and intermittent diarreah and still has an upset stomach 8 days later. I never give my son OTC medicine and I am sick about this.
Why is the full bottle liquid of children’s zyrtec on the recall but the individual liquid spoon size not? Maybe I’m wrong but isn’t it all the same liquid only in different packaging and if so would possibly be coming from the same batch unless its being mfg in a separate plant? Anyone know?
As I sit here reading these comments I am left to wonder, if my son was affected also. In the end of march my son had a tooth ache from teething. We gave him tylenol and noticed the next morning that he had a rash. I gave him Benedryl. That afternoon he started throwing up. I thought it was just a mild stomach bug but the next evening my 2 yr old son was rushed to the emergency room by ambulance, barely responding to us. In the emergency room he had seizures. He had thrown up everything including the acid in his stomach. He was hospitalized for three days and put on antibotics. I saw the news today and looked at my son’s bottles and saw that they are in fact, recalled.
My 2-year old son had a seizure on Saturday afternoon after having a very low fever and taking the recalled motrin. It was the scariest thing in my life and we honestly thought he was gone. 911 talked us through the seizure and finally he woke 12 minutes later just prior to the EMT arriving. He went to the ER but checked out ok. They are calling it a febrial seizure but kind of strange timing.
My 1 year old had a mild fever last Wednesday night and I gave him Motrin, he was cranky and wouldn’t eat, and later vomited up everything and I gave him some Tylenol and put him down to bed. About 2 hours later, he had a febrile seizure. I rushed him to the emergency room and spent the night with him there. I fail to believe all these first time seizures are a coincidence.
My son has also been teething. We have been giving recalled tylenol for a couple of weeks and have experienced difficulty sleeping and a rash on back and tummy. Just found out about recall today and now wondering if related. hmmm…
boycott thats all these people understand the bottom dollar is what its all about a boycott of all johnson and johnson products should make companies think twice about screwing the consumer
to the person with the question about individual spoon size of Zyrtec – it is on the recall list. I just saw it on the McNeil site.
I am very upset about this as i have had two bottles of the recalled tylenol plus dye free that are on the recall list. I bought the first in December I think. The second was bought a few weeks ago as i forgot i had the other bottle and my daughter had another bad cold. She has complained of stomach ache and vomited the other night. I only gave her half the dose and only at night to help her sleep as she was so congested. She is over the cold now and seems ok, but i worry what if there is some hidden damage to her.
to the person with the question about individual spoon size of Zyrtec – it is on the recall list. I just saw it on the McNeil site.
I am pretty sure that it wasn’t on the original recall list, which simply listed ‘Children’s Zyrtec Liquids in Bottles. ‘ The Children’s Zyrtec Sugar-Free Dye-Free Perfect Measure Grape with an NDC number of 50580-723-10 seems to have been added since the original recall list came out.
That original list had 43 items on it. The new one has 45. The other added one looks to be the Children’s Motrin Suspension 4oz Berry Hospital.
I have searched a lot of places and so far not one mention of what the ingredient was that was added in excessive amounts and what ingredient was added – amazed at how they can simply state ‘an ingredient’ what ingredient? can someone please state what it was so its ‘useless’ and ‘inert’ nature can be verified by someone not naturally incented to potentially down play any complexities? Confused why no one is presenting more data than the McNeil Press release – surely a huge story – seems like the main headline – drugs tainted but by what specifically – what chemical what type of bacteria?
Confused why no one is presenting more data than the McNeil Press release
The FDA’s 483 Inspection Report in the Office of Regulatory Affairs Electronic Reading Room has a lot more details. It is not a very easy read though.
Wow! I just received this recall notice via email yesterday from a parenting website. And I am horrified at how many mothers have posted that their child had suffered a ‘febrile seizure’ after taking tylenol.my 15 month old went though the same thing about a month ago, biggest scare ever. She was unresponsive in my arms, stopped breathing, turned blue and went into the seizure.the ambulance took her to the er and then she was given motrin her fever finally went down after having a fever all day.the doctors just brushed it off as a very common febrile seizure.hummm who could I call to get this straighten out? I’m sure j&j can spare some change for the emergency bills and scares they caused.
And I am horrified at how many mothers have posted that their child had suffered a ‘febrile seizure’ after taking tylenol.
According to the National Institute of Health, ‘approximately one in every 25 children will have at least one febrile seizure,’ so they are not rare. It is very possible that these are coincidences, but the only way to know is if everyone reports them to the FDA’s MedWatch Adverse Event Reporting Program.
Chris – I would have to agree with you on keeping all bottles and not throwing them away. I had a questionable bottle of Tylenol in 6/08 but didn’t know any different at the time because my only son was too young for me to know any difference. He was extremely sick 6/08 and when hospitalized, the Drs at the children’s hospital could not figure out what was going on. They even tested him for Leukemia because whatever “infection” he had wiped out his white blood cells. For 7 mos he had an auto-immune problem that eventually cleared up on its own. But bottom line, for 3 days prior to hospital visit he was taking alternating Motrin and Tylenol at about 9mos old and just wasn’t getting any better. To this day we still don’t know what the exact cause was or what kind of “infection” it was that caused his self induced auto-immune issues were. But that happened to be around the time he was taking that weird Tylenol that smelled a little different. I
I have been reading a number of comments about people whose children had a seizure because they thought that they were treating the fever with Tylenol or Motrin and it never went down. The same thing happened to my daughter this weekend.
If this happened to you the FDA NEEDS to know about this ASAP. Go onto this website http://www.fda.gov/safety/medwatch/default.htm and on the right hand side of the screen you will see a section that states “Report a Serious Medical Problem Product Online”. It only takes a few minutes but this information is critical to the FDA.
Like so many of you I trusted in the medicine I was giving my daughter and as a result of that trust she suffered a seizure and we had to spent hours in the hospital. It was the scariest experience of my life and I want McNeil to own up to their mistake.
The fact remains, ladies and gentlemen, that febrile seizures are not all that uncommon. And, if your child is going to have a seizure, it’s the “safest” one out there. The fact that so many coincide with the taking of the recalled products is somewhat explainable as well. Oral medications take a good deal of time to get into the body and take effect. If the medication that was taken was also a subclinical dose, meaning that the active ingredient wasn’t at the level stated on the container, that too would facilitate the potential for a febrile seizure, as the child wouldn’t be getting the recommended dosage. Don’t get me wrong, I’m just as ticked off as you are. I have been home from work for 2 days treating my child’s fever with what I just found to be a recalled product. I will not sleep tonight waiting for a seizure. And she has been vomiting as well. My mind is on overload right now. Let’s just all hope and pray that, for the children’s sake, it all turns out for the best.
My 11-month old son also had a fever of 102-104 for 4 days. We gave him infant Tylenol during the day and infant Motrin at night (both recalled) and he had the worst bought of vomiting over those four days. He lost a lot of weight and couldn’t keep any food or liquids down to the point where he was vomiting stomach acid. We stopped giving him the recalled meds last week and he’s still prone to vomit; he never used to vomit before the recalled meds.
Over the last few days I’ve heard so many of these stories. Please take action and speak up on behalf of your children. DEFINITELY report all seizures, vomiting, hospitalizations etc to MedWatch or else FDA won’t know about them! Also please contact your representative to press for answers regarding potential health problems these flawed medicines may cause your child in the future. A letter template is available at: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/topic.php?uid=124240290919932&topic=58
You can get a refund or a coupon here:
https://www.mcneilproductrecall.com/page.jhtml?id=/include/replacement_coupon.inc
Febrile seizures are fairly common and are caused by a rapid change in temperature, not a fever alone.
If you click on the product recall link at the top of this page, there is a link there to click on to apply for a refund or a coupon. I did it, and it is easy to find. I asked for a refund, however, because I will probably use generic from now on.
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I just finished our refund request on McNeil’s webpage:
https://www.mcneilproductrecall.com/page.jhtml?id=/include/replacement_coupon.inc
I am thankful for all who suggested keeping the bottles, I will do that, and I copied the entire webpage before I sent it. Will keep that also.
I will not hold my breath waiting for a refund though.
My granddaughter’s mom works at a pediatrician’s office. About four months ago, when the little one was sick, her mom he gave us 3 of the .25 (1/4) oz. bottles of Tylenol drops for infants. They are SAMPLES from the company …..
THE SAMPLES ARE ALL IN THE RECALL. BE SURE TO MENTION THIS TO YOUR CHILDREN’S DOCTORS. ANYONE WHO WAS GIVEN A SAMPLE MAY BE AT RISK.
( btw – In my opinion – I don’t think anyone has the right to ask for a refund or a coupon for samples, and I don’t think you have the right to ask either for products that are past the expiration date. )
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Thank you Ruth and Vincent for the info on the spoon size zyrtec. My daughter had been taking double doses of this until she realized herself instead of helping her it was making her sick. I have the recalled tylenol liquid and the tylenol plus flu as well. We had been using Motrin when the last recall happened. I am disgusted. My daughter has missed just about 40 days of school this year and now I wonder if this is the reason why. As a parent, you think your doing good giving your child this stuff to take away headaches, flu and colds. She was a healthy teen until this year, always seems sick.
What about generics? As past recalls tylenol provides several store brands?!
http://www.pcc.com/lists/pedtalk.archive/0611/00047.html
I am really not happry right now. I am sitting here with infants’ tylenol, children’s Tylenol, Infants’ Motrin, Children’s Motrin, and Tylenol multi-symptome cold and they are all recalled I have at least $50 woth of garbage here. My daughter had the swine flu and was in the ER cause I could not get the fever broke…. hmmm wonder why. I am pissed. I am a single mother with 3 children and i work hard for everything I have and I will be damnd if they are not going to give me my money back. I don’t want anymore of their garbage. They could have killed innocent sick children and they don’t even give a shit. As i sit here i am getting madder and madder. When I go to work everyday I work hard to make sure my job is done right. What are the employees here doing getting paid to take naps…..are you serious. They need to get rid of all the lazy asses and hire people with children who care what is in their child medication. I will never in my life by this garbage again!!!!!!!!! I hate this company! I have 3 other medications that are not recalled and guess where they are going down the drain like the rest of this shit!I will keep every bottle and I will get my money back
Thanks for listening to me vent
A VERY MAD hard working single mother
I called McNeil to find out if the infants tylenol I had was recalled and they said yes! My son is now 7 months old and when I called McNeil they said someone may call me with instructions to send the bottle back to them. Well someone from the company called me today and wanted my pediatricians phone number. This is due to the fact that my child had diarrhea and started making grunting noises and straining when he had to urinate or make a bowel movement! I called my son’s doctor’s office and asked if any one else had called about this similar situation, and the nurse told me no one ever called! I see #13 Chris said to save the bottle in case something happens in the future. That is what I was thinking. I am praying that everything is ok, but this is disturbing and I am very upset about it!!!!!
I just discovered that you can return unopened and opened Kids & Babies Tylenol/Motrin/Benadryl products to Target and they will give you a giftcard for the value (instead of going through the manufacturers website). They do not require a receipt, just your license.
How can they say “no adverse reaction?” My 4 year old grandaughter has been very sick since Oct. Cough, flu symptoms. Then in March, we gave her Benedryl for Allergy. Well, she got fever and vomit. Then we gave her motrin-tylenol to break 9 day fever. Seh got worse. took her to hospital. they gave motrin-then Tylenol to breal fever. The fever went up! No she vomits, has severe stomach cramps, sick all the time. Also has fluid in the lungs. She has no energy. She has always been an active child, very athletic. Now shes different. Still cramps and we are 13 days with no Motrin or Tylenol. When will it end. We want answers. What is the long term of this? What can we expect next? Will she get better?
Forget the refunds…this may be coincidental, but my one year old nephew was given children’s Tylenol on Monday, May 3, and he died the morning of Tuesday, May 4, 2010. At this point we have no explanation and are waiting for the results of the autopsy. I would keep the bottles if I were you. We are.
Just bring your bottles even almost completely gone to Walgreens and they’ll give you a gift card for the value (if you don’t have a receipt) or cash (if you do have the receipt)
Walgreens will eventually be refunded from McNeil so its a quicker way to get something other than waiting for McNeil to get back to you.
My daughter also had a fever and I was alternating the Tylenol and Motrin. I could not break the fever and she had a febrile seizure. This happened in January and then in March, both times I used the same bottle of motring and tylenol infant drops. Then I find out our products were recalled! We all need to report this as an “adverse affect”! If you have ever watched your child have a seizure it is traumatizing!
Does anyone know if there is a group somewhere who is taking legal action?
TJ – My daughter was also rushed to the hospital in seizures due to her Tylenol.
I almost killed my daughter by using their products!!!
Please e-mail me if anyone knows of a law firm who is already handling this case. I am not going to let this one pass!
uzzi_hawaii@hotmail.com
I gave my son Tylenol on 4/28, on 4/29 his urine was tea colored. During the day it progressed to a grape juice color, and he was in the hospital. They released him thinking it was caused by strep, but he never got better so he went to another hospital. His kidney was functioning at only 50%. I wonder if the Tylenol had something to do with it.
Actually, if you go on McNeill’s web site there is a form you can fill out to request a refund–IF you have the bottles on hand and can provide the lot number and product id number. I submitted my request less than two weeks ago and already got a refund check of $16 for my two recalled bottles of Tylenol and one of the bottles was even expired.
Happily, we did not have any reactions from the Benadryl & Tylenol in our cabinets.
I went to the recall site 5/12 with my bottles in hand. I found the product codes on the recall list, but no place to check the lot numbers. I sent a query about the 2 bottles of Benadryl. I got an automated response from the company (@mccus.jnj.com) saying they were busy. 5/22 I got a check for $1.20 from Consumer Care Center in Skillman NJ with no reference information on it. I traced the address back to Johnson & Johnson.
Guess those bottles get to go back to the pharmacy for disposal (NOT down the drain – bad for the fishes!!!) & I get to do it again for the kid’s tylenol. Unfortunately, I don’t have a copy of the e-mail I composed for them. Sigh!
Best of luck to everyone who is having difficulties – may your children be healthy again soon
All of these comments are scaring me.Our son was treated last week for a fever and cold.Gave him tylenol and then found out it was being recalled.since stopping the meds our son has been very moody and not eating well.He is like a different son.I to think it is best not to throw the bottles away.
I was taking adult tylenol for arthritis in my knees and last week after taking it at work got a really bad stomach ache and severe diarrhea…left work about 1 hr early and was sick all night. Next day felt better. About 1:00 in the afternoon I then took it again (not knowing that may have been the cause) and again @ 2:30 ended up with double-over pain and severe diarrhea. Have not taken it since and no more problems now. By the way CVS pharmacy located close to me took all their Tylenol off the shelf today.
I just now found out about the recall. Now, it’s been under the recomendation of my peditrician to give my four month old daughter tylenol for her teething though, I have been finding and using the generics cause the other has been too expensive. THANK YOU GOD! Though, I got my 3 year old daughter the Liquid Zyrtec cause she has allergies and wants to play outside. Noticed that she was still symptomatic with allergy symptoms and well… figured maybe benadryl would work. So I was giving her the pre-measured Benadryl after discussing it with her peditrician. I wondered then too when the benadryl wasn’t working on her.. aka she never got sleepy or anything off of it if that wasn’t working too. Now seeing the recalls I’m wondering if it’s not good either though they haven’t mentioned it either. It sucks living in a society today that you can’t trust the OTC drug companies that make medications to treat our children. My prayers to you all that have been through the febrile seizures and other problems! I hope they bring this corporation down! This is WRONG in our society.
Last Saturday I took 2 Tylenol Sinus Congestion Rapid Release tablets and at 5a.m. I was up with severe diarrhea!!! I didn’t find these on the recall list but…maybe they should be. Was sick all day. Stopped taking them and have felt fine ever since. I have taken this exact same formula in the past, before April, with no problem. This was a new box purchased in May.
They aren’t on the recall list, but that list was recently expanded by McNeil to include TYLENOL EXTRA STRENGTH RAPID RELEASE GELCAPs and BENADRYL Allergy ULTRATABs.
Let’s put these people out of business!!! The lives and well being of the consumers taking their “medication” garbage are at risk. I say that multiple recalls for the same company is a BIG RED FLAG! I will NOT use anymore TYLENOL or MOTRIN products or any of the other MCNEIL crap they manufacture. My 10 month old threw up after several separate Tylenol administrations and I am furious.
I agree with many of the comments posted and I feel very angry as well! My big family of five have taken the Tylenol products for many years now as needed. This year we have had many “flu” sicknesses! Also my two year old has vomited “unexplainably” in his car seat and I had given him Infant’s Tylenol for a toothache! I feel we are not being informed well enough as to what exactly is going on! I appreciate this doctor’s website. One of my twin boys (14) recently had a terrible headache and violent vomiting spells, as well as a severe pain in his stomach. His twin brother and I went to our local grocery store to purchase more Tylenol! He had taken three throughout the day, hoping to get rid of his headache! To our amazement, we had seen the Tylenol recall sign! We went home and I looked it up on the internet and OF COURSE OUR BOTTLE WAS RECALLED WITH A FEW OTHERS! I called our Ask-A-Nurse and they were helpful but referred me to our poison control center where she took down our information. Everyone should call their local helplines and report it!! We need to keep our food supply and factories in America and quit allowing greed to win! Many factories in other countries are not regulated as well as “so-called” organic farm products from other countries! Education brings awareness and knowledge! Let’s all demand facts! Thanks for this chance to vent and share!! God Bless our nation and world–let’s pray there are no more tragic deaths or sicknesses from this incident! Upset mom and teacher!
My son Jase was almost 10 months and teething, he was 100% healthy and at the 98% in height and weight. I was told to rotate Tylenol and Motrin for fever reducer. On September 23rd 2009 he went down for his usual nap at day care and died. It has taken me till now to go thru his things and I have found 3 bottles of recalled medicine. Autopsy was inconclusive and stated undetermined. After reading pages and pages of comments from other parents about deaths and parents rushing their children to the emergency room due to seizures and almost loosing their children something has to be done. This is complete negligence on their part and they should be held accountable.
that is ridicilious that it has been recalled twice this year
figure somthing out
My story is a bit different, my two daughters were very sick after taking Tylenol. One of my daughters didn’t make it. My other hasn’t been the same since she has taken it. Please help! Does any one know if there is a case action ?
I gave my daughter tylenol for the past three days for a tooth ache she comes home today with a very high fever and I can’t get the fever down its like 102.5 for the past 9 hours could this be related to tylenol recall if so do I need to get her bactrim or what? So far none of the other meds I’ve given her has dropped this fever :/
My 2 year old daughter became ill with a fever and runny nose. I gave her tylenol and benadryl. She became even more sick. Her eyes began to cross. I took her to two different doctors. One doctor said either the fever or tylenol did this to her eyes. However, I was told by the docter he had never seen a case like hers. Normally when a fever causes eye crossing, one eye stands still. Her eye was not standing still. It was going inward. It’s a big coincidence. Notified JJ and they refunded my money for both medicines and said they would follow up. Haven’t heard from them yet.
i used tylenol allergy products for a decade!! the only product that helped my terrible allergies and hayfever!! anyone out there have a helpful suggestion for an alternative?? i have not stopped sneezing or had a decent night’s sleep since my meds ran out!! thanks..judy.
Way to go John Doe!Meds.arent cheap.They expect us to keep up our end of the bargain…so can they!
You people should be closed down forever.
It provers your more concerned about the all mighty dollar, than a human life. I and my family will never trust any of your products again. This is your second goof,that I know of , in your company. The third may kill is all,so you can still be wealthy.