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| SITARA |
Posted
on 10-Feb-03 07:25 PM
This was forwarded to me:
All drugs containing PHENYLPROPANOLAMINE are being recalled. You may want
to try calling the 800 number listed on most drug boxes and inquire about a
REFUND. Please read this CAREFULLY. Also, please pass this on to everyone
you know.
STOP TAKING anything containing this ingredient. It has been linked to
increased hemorrhagic stroke (bleeding in brain) among women ages 18-49 in
the three days after starting use of medication. Problems were not found in
men, but the FDA
recommended that everyone (even children) seek alternative medicine.
The following medications contain Phenylpropanolamine:
Acutrim Diet Gum Appetite Suppressant
Acutrim Plus Dietary Supplements
Acutrim Maximum Strength Appetite Control
Alka-Seltzer Plus Children's Cold Medicine Effervescent
Alka-Seltzer Plus Cold medicine (cherry or orange)
Alka-Seltzer Plus Cold Medicine Original
Alka-Seltzer Plus Cold & Cough Medicine Effervescent
Alka-Seltzer Plus Cold & Flu Medicine
Alka-Seltzer Plus Cold & Sinus Effervescent
Alka Seltzer Plus Night-Time Cold Medicine
BC Allergy Sinus Cold Powder
BC Sinus Cold Powder
Comtrex Flu Therapy & Fever Relief
Day & Night Contac 12-Hour Cold Capsules
Contac 12 Hour Caplets
Coricidin D Cold, Flu & Sinus
Dexatrim Caffeine Free
Dexatrim Extended Duration
Dexatrim Gelcaps
Dexatrim Vitamin C/Caffeine Free
Dimetapp Cold & Allergy Chewable Tablets
Dimetapp Cold & Cough Liqui-Gels
Dimetapp DM Cold & Cough Elixir
Dimetapp Elixir
Dimetapp 4 Hour Liquid Gels
Dimetapp 4 Hour Tablets
Dimetapp 12 Hour Extentabs Tablets
Naldecon DX Pediatric Drops
Permathene Mega-16
Robitussin CF
Tavist-D 12 Hour Relief of Sinus & Nasal
Congestion
Triaminic DM Cough Relief
Triaminic Expectorant Chest & Head
Triaminic Syrup Cold & Aller! gy
Triaminic Triaminicol Cold & Cough .
I just found out and called the 800# on the container for Triaminic and they
informed
me that they are voluntarily recalling the following medicines because
of a certain ingredient that is causing strokes and seizures in children:
Orange 3D Cold & Allergy Cherry (Pink)
3D Cold & Cough Berry
3D Cough Relief Yellow 3D Expectorant
They are asking you to call them at 800-548-3708 with the lot number on the
box so they can send you postage for you to send it back to them, and they
will also issue you a refund.
If you know of anyone else with small children, PLEASE PASS THIS ON. THIS
IS SERIOUS STUFF!
DO PASS ALONG TO ALL ON YOUR MAILING LIST so people are informed.
They can then pass it along to their families.
To confirm these findings please take time to check the following:
URL: Phenylpropanolamine Information Page
http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/infopage/ppa/default.htm
JakeithaE.Holt
HumanResourceAnalyst
HumanResourceManagement
LSUHealthSciencesCenter- Shreveport
(318) 675-6151
(318) 675-6500 FAX
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| Adirondack |
Posted
on 10-Feb-03 07:31 PM
abbui..list ta laamo haicha....
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| bhedo |
Posted
on 10-Feb-03 07:59 PM
Whew...vicks nyquil isn't listed. I'm off the hook.
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| surya |
Posted
on 10-Feb-03 08:14 PM
OMG!! are you just telling me that I could have had a stoke and died everytime I took those Dexatrim Extended Duration pills? :) I came across this list some time back and had to decide whether what I was going to do with some of pills that were in my medicine cabinet. I thought safe rather than sorry and chucked the bottles. (though once in a while nowadays I think..."dexatrim?" :)
Thanks, Sitara.
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| bhedo |
Posted
on 10-Feb-03 08:15 PM
Wait a sec, the talk paper is dated 11/6/2000. And the newest paragraph was added on 2/20/2002. I bet all products have already been recalled by now. You got an outdated email.
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| bhedo |
Posted
on 10-Feb-03 08:19 PM
And to think I almost forwarded it to my workmates. Bah, that would have made me look like an ass.
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| surya |
Posted
on 10-Feb-03 08:20 PM
:)
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| SITARA |
Posted
on 10-Feb-03 08:36 PM
Oh! NO!
Was just doing a Good Samaritan "duty".... I hope you guys did not get an apoplexy reading "out-dated" news!
Oh well!
Thanks Guys!
Better late than never!
:)
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| bhedo |
Posted
on 10-Feb-03 08:41 PM
Eeeh, there are some people out there who like to think of outdated drugs as antiques and like to decorate their medicine cabinets with em, if you know what I mean...so who knows, you doing your "duty" might actually be fruitful.
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| surya |
Posted
on 10-Feb-03 11:03 PM
Ke ko apoplexy ni (by the way I had to double click to get the dictionary meaning hai), kya epileptic seizure jasto ni... shaking and foaming at the mouth. hehe:)
Actually those drugs mentioned are still in the market, like dimetaap, triaminic, acutrima nd of course, dexatrim. So I say its not really an outdated email.
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| sally |
Posted
on 10-Feb-03 11:56 PM
Hmmmm. I just checked the medicine cabinet to see if anything contained phenylenapolywhatever, and found an interesting (and scary) thing: All ingredients aren't listed.
I thought they HAD to be. Silly me.
Anyway, there was a bottle of a Safeway generic cold medicine, and I was figuring I might be safe cuz I never buy the name brands, and everything on that List of Baddies is a name brand. It only listed one "active ingredient" and a couple of "inactive ingredients." And I thought, "Phew. In the clear. Good old generic."
But THEN it went on to say, "caution phena-somethings, this product contains flubbadoodle." Or whatever. And flubbadoodle wasn't listed.
So it does seem like a safe bet to just stay clear of the listed ones--which seem to be the entire inventory of the typical drugstore kid's section, plus Dexatrim (to keep us flabby mommies both slim and wired?) Cuz until the FDA knows what's up--and it's not making much progress, it seems--there's no way to check labels with assurance :-(
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| SITARA |
Posted
on 11-Feb-03 05:23 AM
Sally, I think the flabbadoodle,phennacraps...etc. are not listed because of budgetary cuts in FDA labeling by Bush's administration. It was a choice between homecabinet security versus homeland security! Apparently, the researches and the findings do not have fundings to publish coherent information and their impact on medicine cabinet safety. You know, kind of like the "No child left behind" policy where the education budget cut supports "axis of evil" management across the world. Reminds me that the policy assures 100% of the children at/above grade level.....including, special ed. children...hmmmmm interesting!
Oh bye the way, I did fine Dimetrapp and Robitussin CF in my cabinet. Gave them a swift burial I did...now I am left with Vicks, Tiger balm and noon-chinny-pani....I feel safer from the impending strokes than the holy war!
:(
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| prempujari |
Posted
on 11-Feb-03 05:44 AM
Aaaanch!!!
Alka-seltzer ni parecha!!!
The thing is that, when I am suffering from sinus or severe cold, cough and Flu, I don't read the active and inactive ingredients. I just read the "uses", and if it matches the symptoms, I'll buy it and gulp it. At that point, getting relief becomes more important than death or any kind of damgage.
Scary Scary Sitara Jyu,
It's like a cigarette-hazard public-announcement ni. People have to understand it and follow it, but they don't really wanna do it ni.
Anyway, Any chances of supplyin' witches brew (gingered) to the market? I am sure they are hazard free. Unless, witch cast some spell on it!!
(Pre-coffee syndrome)
Prem Pujari!!!
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