Johnson & Johnson Issues Massive Recall of Tylenol
The victims took Tylenol manufactured from ingredients contaminated with the broken-down by-products of a chemical used to kill fungus/mold on wooden shipping palettes. [The contaminated Tylenol products reportedly have a moldy/musty odor, ironically, due to the presence of the chemical.]
Rolaids have also been recalled. Some lots of them have the same contamination as the recalled lots of Tylenol. [Kind of bizarre you could: start off with a simple headache, get acute stomach ills from the contaminated Tylenol, take Rollaids to treat that, and get a second dose of contamination - increasing your illness further. And all this was being sold during the peak of the perceived H1N1 crisis which was measured by public health officials by symptoms - not by virus test results - when computing infection rate statistics.]
Neither Johnson and Johnson nor the FDA know how many packages of the medication sold to consumers nor currently in stores are affected by the recall. [More bad news for consumers: voluntary recalls like this one do not get all the product off store shelves (e.g. Bausch & Laum, Pet Food, and Sony malware-laced audio CDs.); and neither FDA nor the manufacturer seems to have one consolidated list of all of the recalled UPC/lot# codes, making it impossible for consumers to catch all the recalled items while shopping or after buying them. I found 3 web pages yesterday and included links to them in one of the first articles I posted about the recall here on current. Good luck; hopefully you can use that to get a head start building a complete list. Or, consider maybe a different brand of product is safer until the affected medications reach their expiration date.]
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JohnnySoftware
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It is interesting that children and teens are advised to take Tylenol or some other non-aspirin based/derived medicine if they get a headache during a possible flu infection so they do not get Reyes syndrome.
For reference purposes, here is a URL for a page about Reye's Syndrome, and a quote fro that page that says EXACTLY what I am talking about.
http://www.reyessyndrome.org/1) "Teenagers with the flu can take medicines without aspirin, such as acetaminophen (Tylenol) and ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin, Nuprin), to relieve symptoms."
2) "Fevers and aches can be treated with acetaminophen (Tylenol) or ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin, Nuprin) or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS). Examples of these kinds of medications include:
* * Acetaminophen; Tylenol
* * Ibuprofen; Advil, Motrin, Nuprin
* * Naproxen; Aleve"Remember how the H1N1 presumed (but 99% incorrectly diagnosed) cases were complaining of severe stomach problems? Remember how it was mysteriously "targeting" children and teens!??
Well, the news & health media was trumpeting the message that: teens with headaches OR fevers needed to take Tylenol and NOT aspirin if they had a headache or fever, in case it was flu - and by the way there there is supposedly this swine flu pandemic going around so assume these are symptoms of flu.
Just imagine if you could issue a recall for an H1N1 swine flu epidemic.
Right after the biggest part of the Tylenol recall, the number of H1N1 infection cases just plunged down to the point of not looking like a raging epidemic at all.
Also, it was recently discovered that H1N1 swine flu was not nearly as contagious as was initially believed.
- 2 years ago
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JohnnySoftware
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JohnnySoftware
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Remember when all the kids were being kept home from school when they had flu-like symptoms and H1N1 was being considered an epidemic?
CBS News found that virus tests run on 1% of people believed by health care workers have H1N1 actually had H1N1 swine flu, and less than 20% had any type of flu whatsoever.
And now, we find out that during the entire peak of the H1N1 "crisis" level infection rates, there was Tylenol being sold in stores that actually causes some of the symptoms of swine flu: particularly, the really, really, really bad stomach problems people complained of having
Could be a total coincidence, but wouldn't it be interesting if someone in public health checked the Tylenol/Rolaids UPC/lot# codes any of those "presumed H1N1 infected" people have left in their medicine cabinets - to see if they are the very ones under recall, and ask the victims if they remember taking any before or during their illness?
After all, based on virus tests, whatever those people had was not H1N1 flu or any other type of flu either, in 99% and over 80% of the cases, respectively. So like... what did they have?
- 2 years ago
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JohnnySoftware
