Fda Recall

I just got this in an email - confirmed the info on the FDA website and am posting the email:



FDA important info


Any drugs containing PHENYLPROPANOLAMINE are being recalled.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 useof medication. Problems were not found in men, but the FDA recommended that everyone ( even children ) seek alternativemedicine.

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 Medi cine Effervescent
Alka-Seltzer Plus Cold medicine (cherry or or ange)
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 L iquid 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 Rel! ief
Triaminic Expectorant Chest &Head
Triaminic Syrup Cold & Allergy
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!
To confirm these findings please take time to check the
following:
http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/infopage/ppa/

This is really old...but it is true.

cattitude said:

This is really old...but it is true.

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Maybe I got it now cause I am :hack: :sneeze: :cough: :shrug:

PPA is the best diet drug/appetite suppressant in the world. They knocked it out of Dexatrim years ago.

I get tired of the FDA and all their warnings. Why don't they just tell you the possible side-effects and then butt out? You see commercials for Levitra or Cialis or whatever on TV and they have a list of possible side-effects a mile long, yet they haven't been banned. Why PPA? Did the manufacturers not grease enough palms or something?

http://forums.somd.com/showthread.php?t=101217&highlight=Phenylpropanolamine



http://forums.somd.com/showthread.php?t=61156&highlight=Phenylpropanolamine

and.....a lot of those drugs are still on the market. I guess they took out the bad stuff.

cattitude said:

and.....a lot of those drugs are still on the market. I guess they took out the bad stuff.

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Yep. They changed the forumulas and now the drugs don't work like they should. I don't even bother buying them anymore.

kwillia said:

Yep. They changed the forumulas and now the drugs don't work like they should. I don't even bother buying them anymore.

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Did you see where they're considering making you show ID when purchasing certain drugs so they can track it? Apparently druggies are buying up cold medicines and whatnot that contain certain ingredients to get high.

vraiblonde said:

Did you see where they're considering making you show ID when purchasing certain drugs so they can track it? Apparently druggies are buying up cold medicines and whatnot that contain certain ingredients to get high.

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Mucinex D works great for me but you have to sign for it so they can track your meth lab.

vraiblonde said:

Did you see where they're considering making you show ID when purchasing certain drugs so they can track it? Apparently druggies are buying up cold medicines and whatnot that contain certain ingredients to get high.

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I have been having to show photo ID and sign my life away for going on a year now whenever I want to purchase Claritin-D OTC. It wasn't until SOMD.COM news posted an article about this that I realized if I purchase over a certain limit within a certain timeframe I could get "audited"... I buy for a family of 4 and there are a couple times during the year when it's sniffle season and we are all taking it.

cattitude said:

Mucinex D works great for me but you have to sign for it so they can track your meth lab.

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I love that stuff! (The signing, not the drug itself) Our government is so retarded. Instead of examining a problem and coming up with a reasonable solution, they just knee-jerk with the first idiotic thing that pops into their heads.

kwillia said:

if I purchase over a certain limit within a certain timeframe I could get "audited"...

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I'm sorry, Mrs. Kwilly, you have purchased more than the annual limit of cold medicine. We're going to have to take you downtown for questioning.

kwillia said:

I have been having to show photo ID and sign my life away for going on a year now whenever I want to purchase Claritin-D OTC. It wasn't until SOMD.COM news posted an article about this that I realized if I purchase over a certain limit within a certain timeframe I could get "audited"... I buy for a family of 4 and there are a couple times during the year when it's sniffle season and we are all taking it.

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Really? I guess I must not have bought anything tracking worthy.

vraiblonde said:

I love that stuff! (The signing, not the drug itself) Our government is so retarded. Instead of examining a problem and coming up with a reasonable solution, they just knee-jerk with the first idiotic thing that pops into their heads.

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I am so glad I stopped working in a pharmacy years ago. Seems like every year another regulation is slapped on to protect the world's idiots. But then again, they are out there. There is a reason why they must put "by mouth" etc on RX labels. Heard more than one story of kids with ear infections going back to their doctors with *pink ears*.

I had people kvetching about signing for diabetic needles. Yeah, the purpose is to make sure they don't get in the hands of drug abusers. A lack of fresh needles will keep an addict from shooting up? Sure it will! After all, HIV and Hep-B were never spread by needles were they?

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Heard even worse stories from the pharmacists who went to WVU.