Kids pain product recalled in Canada due to potential overdose risk – National | 24CA News

Health Canada is pulling a ache and fever drugs for youngsters off the cabinets due to the “potential risk of overdose.”

The company issued a recall alert Wednesday for one lot of Pediatrix Acetaminophen Oral Solution offered by Teva Canada Ltd.

The drugs is offered over-the-counter with out a prescription and it’s for youngsters aged two to 11 years.

The recall was prompted after the corporate present in routine testing a better than acceptable quantity of acetaminophen within the affected lot. Instead of the authorized and labelled quantity of 160 g or 5 mL, the product had roughly 185 mg or 5 mL.

“This could lead to children receiving too much acetaminophen,” Health Canada mentioned.

“Children may be especially at risk of the effects of acetaminophen overdose given their small size and developing bodies.”

The well being company is advising Canadians to cease utilizing the affected lot of oral medicines which have the expiry date August 2025 and return them to the native pharmacy.

Any uncomfortable side effects needs to be reported to Health Canada.

Acetaminophen overdose could cause nausea, vomiting, lethargy, sweating, lack of urge for food and ache within the higher a part of the stomach or abdomen, based on Health Canada.

In essentially the most extreme instances, this will additionally result in liver injury or failure and even dying.

The lot quantity to observe for on the bottle is MC0079, generally written subsequent to the expiration date.

The recall comes as Canada is within the midst of the respiratory virus season.

Acetaminophen merchandise, like Tylenol and Panadol, are used to deal with fever and delicate to reasonable ache.

There was a scarcity of ache treatment for infants and youngsters in late 2022 and early 2023 because of what Health Canada mentioned was an “unprecedented high demand that began in the summer of 2022.”

Ahead of this winter, trade consultants informed Global News in November that the issue has been resolved and the danger of shortages is “minimal.”

Health Canada mentioned that since this newest recall is proscribed in scope — just one lot if affected — it is not going to have any affect on the overall availability of kids’s acetaminophen merchandise.

— with a file from Global News’ Naomi Barghiel 

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