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Thank you to a reader (Thanks Heather!) for emailing me about this today. I was busy with my 4 year old at a Chuck E Cheese party and hadn’t even a moment to sit down today. Anyway, McNeil Consumer Healthcare announced a voluntary recall of several brands of Children’s medication including Children and Infant Tylenol, Children and Infant Motrin and a few other liquid childrens medications.
According to the recall statement on McNeil’s website the recall is a precautionary measure that has to do with an inconsistency in their quality control and have said this to be the reason:
Some of the products included in the recall may contain a higher concentration of active ingredient than is specified; others may contain inactive ingredients that may not meet internal testing requirements; and others may contain tiny particles.
The company says the potential of any medical events due to taking this medication are “remote” but they are recommending consumers stop using these items immediately, anyway.
To check to see if your items have been named as part of this recall go to the McNeil Consumer Healthcare website and check to see if yours is listed. They are listing items by NDC Number and NOT by Lot#. The products NDC Number can be located above the brand name on the product label.
What Do I Do Now?
If you have some of these recalled medications, stop using them immediately. To get in touch with the company or to report any adverse reactions:
For additional information, including affected NDC numbers, consumers should call 1-888-222-6036 (Monday-Friday 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Eastern Time, and Saturday-Sunday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern Time). Any adverse reactions may also be reported to the FDA’s MedWatch Program by fax at 1-800-FDA-0178, by mail at MedWatch, FDA, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20852-9787, or on the MedWatch website at www.fda.gov/medwatch.
If you are in need of any of these medications you should call your Doctor or Pediatrician and they can recommend the right supplemental products.
If you are in dire need of a replacement you can check with Target or CVS for a store brand equivalent – but please check with the pharmacist BEFORE administering any medication to make sure the dosage amounts are the same for your child’s weight/age.
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8 Responses to “Children’s Tylenol, Motrin, Benedry Recalled by McNeil Consumer Healthcare”
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You’re welcome! Thanks to you, Safemama, for always giving-out such great info.
“Tiny particles” of what??? That’s the scary part!
Plus, I use mostly all store brands, which are probably made in the same plant, but are not part of the recall??
I called to ask for compensation and apparently they are refunding all of my nine (!!) various bottles. Their number is listed on their site. Expect to wait a bit on hold, then expect the call itself to take a while as you’ll need to list all of the NDC codes, lot numbers and expiry dates for each bottle you have, then give your contact info.
That is why I dont use this things!, thank God for Natural remedies and Homepathy! there is never a recall on that, my kids are not expendable!!!!
Patty, what do you give your kids for fever? I only only of belladonna as fever-reducer, but it doesnt really work on my kids…thanks!
I agree with you Julie, I think if your child has a high fever, what other option is there? You could risk a rever induced seizure if the temp gets up over 104. I wish there was another safer option.
Bought one of these lovely items. Had to return it. I saw it was a voluntary recall and thought perhaps I should print out the recall boxes/Lot numbers to give to our local grocery store so they could pull it off their shelves. I mean I wouldn’t think a store would want to be responsible for selling this (i.e. getting their @sses sued).
Nope. They gave me my money back, pushed the papers back my way saying “you can have these back.” Way to go on caring, jerks.
Wow! Every store I have gone to has everything yanked off the shelves. If you want to email me privately to let me know what store/chain: safemama at gmail.com – its not right that they are continuing to sell it.