Tylenol and Other Medication Recalls

                 This November, more than 40 over-the-counter medications are voluntarily being recalled by the McNeil Consumer Healthcare company. These include pain, fever and allergy medications for infants and children. Forms of Tylenol, Motrin, Benadryl, and Zyrtec and all being recalled. Their has been traces of higher concentrations of ingredients in the products that are supposed to be. Some of the medications “may contain inactive ingredients that may not meet internal testing requirements' or 'may contain tiny particles” and in addition, some of the raw materials in the products were 

 and that some of the raw materials used to make the products were adulterated with bacteria. The McNeil company that their are no reports of detrimental medical mishaps, the recall is a “precautionary measure.”  

               If medication similar to these being recalled are needed you can substitute them with medications such as a chewable tablet, a box of the medicine that hasn’t been recalled with a lot number that wasn’t included in the recall, or another brand or generic form of the medication which has not been affected by the recall at all.

Recalled over-the-counter medications for infants and children include these medications:

• Tylenol Infants' Drops
• Children's Tylenol Suspension
• Children's Tylenol Plus Suspension
• Motrin Infants' Drops
• Children's Motrin Suspension
• Children's Motrin Cold Suspension
• Children's Zyrtec
• Children's Benadryl Allergy liquids in bottles