Over the Counter Infant Cough Medicine Pulled

I'm sure I'm about to piss someone off, but This just pisses me off.

Because some parents don't realize that a spoon out of your cabinet isn't as precise as the dropper tips that come with the medicine, and because some parents aren't smart enough to figure out that Tylenol Cough & Cold probably has the same ingredient as Benedryl and that you shouldn't give your child BOTH, they are taken off the market for infants.  Do parents not have some type of accountability for their children - accountability to read directions, to look up/ask or figure out the side effects or medicines that contain the same ingredients, to give your child medicine per the directions using the proper dispensing device?

I especially like this "Although the side effects are rare, they are serious, the FDA said. They can include death, convulsions, rapid heart rates, and decreased levels of consciousness. "  If I took too many Tylenol or too much Benedryl or even too many vitamins - I'd have the same problem, but adult meds aren't taken off the market. 

I like this too, "She directed parents and caregivers to look at the active ingredient in the drugs, to take care in giving more than one kind of drug to children, to use only the measuring device that comes with the drug, and to consult a physician with questions."  Gee, ya think? It's like "don't spill hot coffee or it will burn you" - it's all sensible stuff - just be fucking responsible!  The decongestant nose drops work very well for Savanna when she's stopped up, luckily I have a stash that I will continue to use because I can use them correctly - I'm good like that.   I also give her Robitussin Night-time cough... so what's the difference in the doctor prescribing my child Tylenol with CODEINE and or me using Robitussin on them??? I can misuse both of them, right????   You can misuse anything, right?  Some parents feed their kids too much - is that abuse of food?  Are they going to take food away because some parents give their child too much fruit juice, which has sugar and too much sugar can cause hyperactivity - and too much food can cause obesity and childhood obesity is a growing problem, which can lead to adult obesity, which can lead to death, diabetes, high blood pressure, ect...

I bitched at my pediatrician about all of this - he said "it's not that you can't get them, you'll just have to get them from me now in prescription form", which is good for him, the insurance companies and the drug makers... hmmm... was it a conspiracy?  We are already funding his retirement between our two kids - he told me this himself.

These meds have been on the market for years, so the way to control parents who cannot pay attention to detail is to take the meds off the market for everyone.  I'm glad we don't take this way of thinking on everything...  just think about it for a minute. 

Ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Comments

You're totally wrong. And as far as your stash...........if there's a chance something could go wrong or your daughter could stop breathing you don't give it to them. Doing that says nothing except making you an irresponsible parent. There are reason for recalling things and taking them off the market. Quit complaining and take better care of your kid

[Lindsay]

My daughter has the worse cough right now! And i cant give her anything. The doctor said to elevate the bed, us a humidifier and let it run its course!! I'm so upset.

[lois]

its a total lack of accountability on the parents side. Our country is increasingly becoming a nanny state where daddy government makes our decisions for us. The parent should be held accountable for their misuse of the products but in law suit happy america, this is impossible. Parents think "It must be their fault! It cant be mine! How could they even make a product like this for children!" and so on.
What a shame. So the govt steps in and products are taken off the shelves because of the outcry of a few morons.

[Cindy]

I TOTALLY AGREE!!!

The other thing is the vapor patches! Because some idiots put them on infants or young YOUNG ones that would peel them off and eat them.... Shouldn't you know your own child and whether or not they would be prone to do that?

Everyone is blaming the makers and not themselves for their lack of following directions. If they weren't important, they wouldn't give you directions!

Phew! Idiots, I tell ya.

[Dawn]

I AGREE! I'm thinking of trying to figure out what the adult/child ratio is if I just used adult crap in lower doses. Fucking FDA!