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The NDC number seems to be a very "broad" number, (they seem to be recalling ALL of the outstanding products in these lines) as opposed to recalling some lots f

by ekanes 17y ago

The NDC number seems to be a very "broad" number, (they seem to be recalling ALL of the outstanding products in these lines) as opposed to recalling some lots from some factories. That's probably good from a safety perspective, but unfortunate in terms of hassle (I'll probably be throwing away a lot of unaffected product). All of my kids' medicines were affected (9 bottles, 4 different kinds), and a friend found the same. The official site of the recall: http://www.mcneilproductrecall.com/ http://www.mcneilproductrecall.com/ The form to fill out if you'd like your money back: https://www.mcneilproductrecall.com/page.jhtml?id=/include/contact.inc https://www.mcneilproductrecall.com/page.jhtml?id=/include/c... I filled it out yesterday, and haven't heard a response yet. That's unfortunate, since they could at least have an auto-responder acknowledging receipt.

jacquesm 17y ago
> All of my kids' medicines were affected (9 bottles, 4 different kinds), and a friend found the same. 9 bottles and 4 different kinds of medication for your children ? Wow, they must be very ill then, I'm really sorry to hear that. Good luck with that!
- jerf 17y ago
  Naw, not those medications. Basic baby loadout is: Tylenol (teething, bad colds), Benedryl (mostly "oops, guess he's allergic to that!"), Motrin (my wife appreciates that Tylenol and Motrin are processed by different parts of the body and switches between them so as not to overload one of them; perhaps excessively cautious, especially as we don't use a lot anyhow, but hey....), and gas-suppressant (Mylecon). I do not know how parents lived before gas suppressant. Well, I do, actually, and I am glad that we have these things. So much "colic" of the past is actually covered by one of these three basic medicines. (Though by no means all of it.) And, that's four. Make sure you have a supply of at least all three kinds on hand at all times, because you do not know when you will be quizzed at 3am. If you're not sure what's up, the gas suppressant seems pretty harmless (directions are roughly "Use at will not more than 20 times a day", and we've never even come close to that), followed up by one of the pain suppressants. (It may seem terrible to just squirt pain suppressant down someones throat if you're not sure that's the problem, but remember we're dealing with people who are absolutely incapable of telling you what's up... you have to guess. Also, no, we are not hiding chronic problems. It's pretty much always been teething, which our child has taken harder than some, though not particularly hard. A couple unpleasant days, then a couple of clear weeks, is the usual pattern for our kid. And honestly, side effects for occasional usage of Tylenol or Motrin are basically nil.) (Basically, what all these parenthetical are boiling down to are "If you don't have kids, I'm not interested in your theories" and "You don't have enough evidence to decide whether I'm overmedicating based on this post, so stuff it, and also see my first point." What you ought to be seeing here is someone who is actually concerned and thinking about the issues and has a lot more data about the local situation than you do. And not you specifically, jacquesm, just people in general who are always so quick to judge based on two quick paragraphs with nowhere near the necessary data to actually judge....)
  - jacquesm 17y ago
    Ok, happy to hear it's just 'regular kids' stuff. You had me worried for a bit there. I've spent way too much time in the childrens ward of a hospital recently and there is nothing sadder than sick kids. As for the people that modded me down above, what's wrong with you?
    - J3L2404 17y ago
      The phrase 'Good luck with that!' has the connotation of being misguided, which is probably the causus downmoddus.
    - jerf 17y ago
      I would have thought the same thing before I had a kid, or at least the thought would have crossed my mind. Sometime I really need to sit down and write the list of things that nobody told me about raising kids. I started having kids at 30, so the list isn't things like "Hey, they cry a lot" or "you lose a lot of sleep"; I had that figured out. It's the relatively short list of things that still were a surprise. The necessary pharmacology loadout is one of them; we learned the importance of anti-gas the hard way. (That is, if I could go back, we'd reach for that a lot sooner and a lot more often. Like I said, it's essentially harmless if you're wrong and it came up a lot.)
      - jacquesm 17y ago
        I could have used some of that with my son about 16 years ago, he would cry for days on end and it would drive us completely bonkers. It's so hard to have a child that is obviously in pain and that you can not communicate with other than holding him and trying to somehow comfort him. It let up after about 4 months and the relief was immense. He's heavily asthmatic so using medication pretty much all the time there is still a chance he'll grow out of it but that's lessening year by year. He's in the middle of a growth spurt at them moment, in spite of a serious lack of superstition I'll keep my fingers crossed.

by ekanes 17y ago

jacquesm 17y ago

> All of my kids' medicines were affected (9 bottles, 4 different kinds), and a friend found the same. 9 bottles and 4 different kinds of medication for your children ? Wow, they must be very ill then, I'm really sorry to hear that. Good luck with that!

jerf 17y ago
Naw, not those medications. Basic baby loadout is: Tylenol (teething, bad colds), Benedryl (mostly "oops, guess he's allergic to that!"), Motrin (my wife appreciates that Tylenol and Motrin are processed by different parts of the body and switches between them so as not to overload one of them; perhaps excessively cautious, especially as we don't use a lot anyhow, but hey....), and gas-suppressant (Mylecon). I do not know how parents lived before gas suppressant. Well, I do, actually, and I am glad that we have these things. So much "colic" of the past is actually covered by one of these three basic medicines. (Though by no means all of it.) And, that's four. Make sure you have a supply of at least all three kinds on hand at all times, because you do not know when you will be quizzed at 3am. If you're not sure what's up, the gas suppressant seems pretty harmless (directions are roughly "Use at will not more than 20 times a day", and we've never even come close to that), followed up by one of the pain suppressants. (It may seem terrible to just squirt pain suppressant down someones throat if you're not sure that's the problem, but remember we're dealing with people who are absolutely incapable of telling you what's up... you have to guess. Also, no, we are not hiding chronic problems. It's pretty much always been teething, which our child has taken harder than some, though not particularly hard. A couple unpleasant days, then a couple of clear weeks, is the usual pattern for our kid. And honestly, side effects for occasional usage of Tylenol or Motrin are basically nil.) (Basically, what all these parenthetical are boiling down to are "If you don't have kids, I'm not interested in your theories" and "You don't have enough evidence to decide whether I'm overmedicating based on this post, so stuff it, and also see my first point." What you ought to be seeing here is someone who is actually concerned and thinking about the issues and has a lot more data about the local situation than you do. And not you specifically, jacquesm, just people in general who are always so quick to judge based on two quick paragraphs with nowhere near the necessary data to actually judge....)
- jacquesm 17y ago
  Ok, happy to hear it's just 'regular kids' stuff. You had me worried for a bit there. I've spent way too much time in the childrens ward of a hospital recently and there is nothing sadder than sick kids. As for the people that modded me down above, what's wrong with you?
  - J3L2404 17y ago
    The phrase 'Good luck with that!' has the connotation of being misguided, which is probably the causus downmoddus.
  - jerf 17y ago
    I would have thought the same thing before I had a kid, or at least the thought would have crossed my mind. Sometime I really need to sit down and write the list of things that nobody told me about raising kids. I started having kids at 30, so the list isn't things like "Hey, they cry a lot" or "you lose a lot of sleep"; I had that figured out. It's the relatively short list of things that still were a surprise. The necessary pharmacology loadout is one of them; we learned the importance of anti-gas the hard way. (That is, if I could go back, we'd reach for that a lot sooner and a lot more often. Like I said, it's essentially harmless if you're wrong and it came up a lot.)
    - jacquesm 17y ago
      I could have used some of that with my son about 16 years ago, he would cry for days on end and it would drive us completely bonkers. It's so hard to have a child that is obviously in pain and that you can not communicate with other than holding him and trying to somehow comfort him. It let up after about 4 months and the relief was immense. He's heavily asthmatic so using medication pretty much all the time there is still a chance he'll grow out of it but that's lessening year by year. He's in the middle of a growth spurt at them moment, in spite of a serious lack of superstition I'll keep my fingers crossed.