Tylenol Recall News - Johnson & Johnson on Thursday voluntarily recalled certain infant cough and cold products, saying the Tylenol recall was necessitated by “rare” instances of misuse leading to overdoses.
In a statement, J&J’s McNeil-PPC unit said the misuse of Infants’ Tylenol Drops or Pediacare Infant Drops could lead to overdoses “particularly in infants under two years of age.”
Again, the Johnson and Johnson recall has absolutely nothing to due with defective products. They are simply voluntarily recalling infant drops that parents may unknowingly be over administering to very young children.
The products in the Tylenol recall include:
- Infants’ Tylenol Drops Plus Cold
- Concentrated Infants’ Tylenol Drops Plus Cold & Cough
- Pediacare Infant Drops Decongestant
- Pediacare Infant Drops Decongestant & Cough
- Pediacare Infant Dropper Decongestant
- Pediacare Infant Dropper Long-Acting Cough
- Pediacare Infant Dropper Decongestant & Cough (PE) products.
Not included in the Johnson & Johnson recall:
- Cough and cold products for children age 2 and over
- Single-ingredient pain reliever and fever reducers expressly labeled for infants.
The Tylenol and Pediacare recall comes two months after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a public health advisory warning parents not to give cough and cold medications to children under 2 years of age without a doctor’s direction.
And that’s the latest news on the Tylenol recall.
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October 11th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
so there’s nothing really wrong with any of this stuff?
you mean this whole j&j recall is because some parents are too stupid to read the label…
first we babyproofed the medicine bottlecaps, now we’re gonna “parent proof” the eyedroppers?
October 11th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
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October 11th, 2007 at 7:27 pm
This is just amazing… I know there are some stupid people out there, but actually over dosing your infant? Really, some people just shouldn’t be allowed to have children… Has anyone considered contacting children’s services, and having these children moved to a home with more responsible adults?
Now my daughter, whom is just about 1 - 1/2 yrs, has to suffer all night long when she has a cold because people are stupid. This is a whole new low for North America.
Perhaps something else to include in the Public Health Nurse visits.
October 11th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
This is insane. Why does my daughter have to suffer because people are too stupid to read the label. Should we ban all medicines because people overdoes? Give me a break?????
October 11th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
This is insane. Why does my daughter have to suffer because people are too stupid to read the label. Should we ban all medicines because people overdose? Give me a break?????
October 13th, 2007 at 2:28 am
I guess it’s still ok to use it right?
October 13th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
For responsible parents, this is an inconvenience when our infants are suffering with a cold but for those who dole out meds liberally and without consulting the label, I don’t think this is the answer. I think people will just buy child medicine and cut the dose themselves. It’s six of one, a half dozen of the other.
October 13th, 2007 at 7:26 pm
This Tylenol recall is amazing…. We are seeing a massive influx of mothers and there children with Simple Colds flooding our Emergency Department. They are now demanding perscriptions for there over the counter cold medications. Thank goodness Rondec is still availble.
I agree it appears todays society is incredibly ignorant and they continue to overdose or missmange there childrens health care. The Government should impose a manditory license to have children if your IQ is less than 12. Or Manditory parental training classes if you unable to read a bottle and administer the correct dose. The problems lies with the parents who lack social resonsiblity that are having 7-8 chidren, expect goverment assistantce, bring there children to Emergency department for colds, and feel entitled to free socialistic health care. These are the ones who cant follow simple instructions and shouldnt be allowed to breed…
October 13th, 2007 at 7:55 pm
This is retarded now my local news said they were recalling the regular tylenol concentrated infant drops too was that a mistake or does anyone know if they are recalling those as well?????
October 14th, 2007 at 8:43 pm
What is more stupid is….stupid parents give their kids these Medications. Your body knows how to fight off a cold you are messing up its natural defense system with medication that speeds heart beats makes them drowsy so what you can sleep better….Stay up all night with you child using saline drops, a humidifier and an bulb sucker Thats what being a parent is about!!!!
October 14th, 2007 at 8:57 pm
My Doctor has told me to never give my Infant cold medication for these reasons just because the FDA approves something doesn’t mean it is safe for you. I am not saying everything is bad, a lot are useless
October 23rd, 2007 at 1:52 pm
I agree with Casey, repeated use of these medications just makes kids develop a tolerance for it and it is not effective so then they keep increasing the dosage. Second of all the kids are too young to tell you how they are feeling. Saline drops do work extrememly well and losing a nights sleep seems insignificant than overdosing a child doesn’t it. Some parents are just too lazy and irresponsible.
October 24th, 2007 at 4:25 pm
No, people shouldn’t just give the child meds for sleep
NO they shouldn’t give it to them irresponsably
but all these years people have given there child meds that docs have perscibed that have hurt there kids all kids have alergies in one way or another but what everyone fails to realize is that people like me with a child that could and probably will have another fever siezer, are constantly worried about this and you are told by the doc to give your child tylonal and the next time give them a different fever reducer because you body and childrens bodies get amune and resist it after a while
I have 4 kids I wasn’t told this by a doctor and did not think that I had to ask
I was only told this a year ago
who’s at fault in that situation
THE DOCTORS!
MY OLDEST CHILDS 9
October 25th, 2007 at 3:01 pm
It’s really nothing that is wrong with this product, it’s parents that don’t read the label correctly and dope their children up on tylenol when they are sick. It specifically says something like, give every 4 hours as needed AND not more than twice a day. Parents just figure it’s safe every 4 hours. It’s basically a mis-communication.
October 30th, 2007 at 3:02 am
i have a 3yr old who had rsv as an infant. I, like a responsible person took him to a doctor who told me to give him a certain amout of infant pedicare by his weight and if it wasn’t for infant pedicare i don’t know what I would have done. Now my 9mo daughter is sick and i can’t do a thing. Ignorrant parents with no common sense ruin it for the rest of the capable responsible perents in the world
November 9th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
Tylenol is pulling all of their infant’s and children’s cough and cold medicines off the shelves. According to medical professionals, the risks of the medicines outweigh their potential benefits.
Because of Tylenol’s error, they are issuing a free $5 off coupon for any of the following products: Tylenol, Motrin, PediaCare, Benadryl, Sudafed, St. Joseph or Imodium. Most of these products are $5 or less, so with the coupon, they will be free.
You can get the coupon by clicking here - http://www.tylenol.com/page.jhtml?id=tylenol/news/subpcccoldmed.inc - and then clicking on the red “Download Coupon” button or by phone by calling 1-877-895-3665.
November 13th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
my doctor has told me to give my child tylenol everytime they are fussy or when they go and get their shots. i didnt do it because i dont believe in taking medicines for myself and i try not to give it to my kids because they start to become immune. i am a first time mother and a mother of twins, but some people do not research everything. and even when the label says dont give this medicine to your child every 4 hours or do not use on children under 2 your doctor says different so you listen to him. so this is not the parents fault the doctors could be telling them to give the tylenol to the children all of the time like they were telling me. everyone does not feel the way i do about medicine. i try not to give my kids any medicine but some people are not like that.
November 14th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
This is a letter I sent to Tylenol. I should probably send it to the other companies as well.
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This is in reference to pulling your infant tylenol off the shelf.
I would like to point out that in order to protect yourself, you’ve
taken valuable information off your products. Information that WILL HELP PREVENT
wrong dosages.
We have a 2 year old son. He has taken cold medicine before. We are college
educated parents and we read directions and follow them. Our son wakes up
coughing and sneezing and cannot get back to sleep. I pull out the childrens
medicine that I bought 2 hours earlier and low and behold, I cannot figure out
how much medicine to give my child. Knowing a doctor callback might be as much
as an hour away, and the importance of a good nights sleep, I pull out my calculater
compare concentrations from an empty infant bottle and calculate what should be
the same dose in the new medicine that does not provide dosages. There is one ingredient
in this new bottle that was not in the old bottle so now I’m taking a risk. I lower
the dosage that I calculate by a little bit and administer.
So there you have it. In trying to eliminate the risk of uneducated parents who
refuse to read a label, you have parents that would diligently follow your label
play scientist and trying to figure out a dosage. Of course your answer is you should
call a doctor, but the problem is the uneducated parents didn’t call the doctor
when the label said call a doctor for a child under 2. You are creating a whole
new class of parent who will try to figure out the dosage at 3:00am when a child is
coughing non-stop and the pediatrician has not called back. These same parents would gladly
do the right thing and follow the dosages YOU have scientifically calculated.
This is a terrible decision all the way around. I’m convinced in your attempt
to reduce the problem, you’ve ended up amplifying it.
Have your lawyers look at this and think about it. Are you creating more risks
of overdose by hiding information?
February 26th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Providing your child with relief from a cold or cough by using medication doesn’t make you less of a parent than one who stays up all night with their suffering child. As a parent who does use medication I too use vapor rubs, humidifiers, make home made chicken soup and I give my child vitamins and feed him fruits with high vitamin C like strawberries to help him get well quicker. I don’t think that anyone is a lesser parent for choosing his or her own method of child care and it doesn’t make you a lazy parent. I think it’s rude to assume such things.