Why Was Tylenol Infant Cold Taken Off The Market? This Is Getting Crazy?
Please don’t tell me its because some ignorant idiots were giving there kids too much at one time therefore all infants need to suffer.
My son is 21 months and it seems he can take nothing now till the magically age of 2.
Is this the FDA going overboard again because they are scared of being sued or is there an actual bad ingrediant
in these medicines?
I think this is a scam.
Or, a really good PR campaign by a rival.
Think about it, sick babies make everyone nuts.
Freak out parents and the general public, they won’t buy that product, leaving them looking for an alternative.
How much do you want to bet we’re gonna hear about some new, safe wonder drug for babies under 2 in the near future?
Happened with the “cervical cancer vaccine”. Someone decided that a vaccine that isn’t proven, and doesn’t work for everyone, is MANDATORY in some places!?!?! How on earth do people justify that?
The only way I can think of…
MONEY.
They did not take the childrens meds off the market because they were being used to make meth, yes pseudophedrine is used to make meth and thats why there are laws to limit the amount of pseudophedrine products sold in a month. But they use the single entity products not the combo products like tylenol to make meth. They took these products off the market because parents were oversdosing their children. The way most people think is if 1 teaspoonful is good, then 2 teaspoonfuls will be even better. This is of course not the case and increasing the dose will only increase the risk for side effects including death.
Decongestants are not good for children under 5 years old from what I understand.
I also think people give too much in the way of “mixed” drugs…like they are all inclusive. Pain killer (tylenol) and decongestants…then they give tylenol with it…causes too many overdoses..etc.
Besides, from everything Ive experienced, they dont work anyway.
The overdose was caused by unknown weight and dose needed for the child. Say if a child weighed 15 pounds but was 6 months there was a chance you could overdose them cause they went by age not weight. Dosing was off so they pulled them.
I think the first answerer hit the nail on the head by I’d add that it smacks of another Chinese issue of lack of oversight.
Because of some ignorant idiots and they have to ruin it for everyone else.
b/c YOU DON’T GIVE AN INFANT DRUGS!!!!!!!!!! THEY CAN DIE!!!!!!!!!!
get a vaporizer and some Vicks and think twice about ANY meds in your life there are better ways!!!!!!!!!!
people started to use it to make meth
Two reasons, people can’t read the labels and do overdose their children and themselves. Answer two, its used to make meth.
The reason is b/c the labeling and dosing is not clear and the companies need to resubmit these products with correct, easy to read/understand dosing measurements. Currently, the suggestion is that all of these meds use droppers instead of the former attached cups. The drugs themselves are not ‘harmful’ if taken correctly, but as the FDA will tell you, they have found NO evidence that these drugs actually work on children under the age of 2 and, further, little evidence that they work on children up to a teenage level. The higher doses given to adults of, usually, stronger medicines seem to work to help symptoms, but children under the age of 2 respond better to hugs, kleenex, saline solution, and more attention than they do to any otc medication that was formerly on the market.
They took it off the market because retards out there were giving their kid to much.
they marketed the drugs to infants (duh
) however they didn’t test them on infants, and people who were too lazy/ dumb to read the bottle and give their child the proper amount used this as an excuse to sue when they became ill.
Can -u- say over DOSE to many young girls w/babies don’t know what the hell they are doing,then -u-got the ones that was given it to the babies to put them to sleep so they can go and party no joke dude that’s why….P.G.
My son will be 2 in January and I have used cold meds with him all along. As long as you are careful with it and know exactly how much your children can have and not give it to them too much, I think that it is okay. I have found that the Triaminic Cold and Cough and others in that line work well for stuffy noses.
here is an article about why http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/news/2…
i got a prescription from my daughters ped. for a cough and congestion. i guess thats they way we will have to go now.
sad but true some people just shouldn’t have kids.
That is exactly why, children were overdosing on cold medicine because parents were giving them too much. when these stories surfaced professionals starting saying cold medicines have not proven to be effective for children anyway so take them off the market
I was not sure so I googled it and got the following answer. That they were taken off of the market voluntarily by the makers. Due to the the fact that there had been unintentional overdoses in the past. I will put the link to the website I found the information from.