Once again McNeil, Inc. has expanded their voluntary recall of various Tylenol, Motrin, and Benadryl products. You can go to www.mcneilproductrecall.com/page.jhtml?id=/include/prd_all.inc to find the various lot numbers that are affected.

This is an expansion of a recall of 60 million products made by McNeil during late 2009 and into early this year. The chances of becoming ill by using any of these products is felt to be remote but if you have them you should contact the company for instructions on what to do. To do so, visit the web site, www.mcneilproductrecall.com, or call 888-222-6036 weekdays from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Eastern time and weekends, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern time. bjmdjd

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Benadryl · Inc. · McNeil · Motrin · Tylenol · voluntary drug recall

I never really understood why we needed to be warned not to operate a bulldozer after taking medications that make us sleepy! But then again most every physician has heard of the pregnant women who had their partner take their birth control pills for them for a few days or they spread contraceptive jelly on toast and ate it. I guess instructions are just not obvious or understandable to everyone.

This week the Food and Drug Administration issued a warning not to swallow Benadryl Extra Strength Itch Stopping Gel meant to be spread on the affected skin. The problem is in getting too large of a dose of the active ingredient diphenhydramine. Large doses can cause confusion, unconsciousness, and hallucinations.

I guess that I just like to assume that common sense and reading/understanding simple instructions are a common thing. I guess it is the folks that don’t fall in this category that help keep the plaintiff attorneys (and the FDA for that matter) in business. bjmdjd

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Benadryl · diphenhydramine · Food and Drug Administartion