3 childrens medicines recalled because of potentially lethal ingredient

[WhiteTara]

http://www.sacbee.com/news/business/article116985113.html

Three brands of over-the-counter homeopathic children’s drugs, two bearing the CVS name, have been recalled over uncertainty about the amount of potentially poisonous belladonna.

Raritan Pharmaceuticals recall announcement, issued Thursday, says U.S. Food & Drug Administration tests determined varying amounts of belladonna from the amount stated on 135-tablet bottles of CVS Homeopathic Infants’ Teething Tablets in lot Nos. 41116 and 43436; 0.85-ounce bottles of CVS Homeopathic Kids’ Ear Relief Liquid, lot No. 35254; and 0.85-ounce bottles of Kids Relief Homeopathic Ear Relief Oral Liquid, lot No. 33149.

CVS initiated its own recall of the teething tablets in September. At the same time, the FDA issued a blanket warning to throw out homeopathic children’s teething tablets and gels. Homeopathic remedies emphasize a “natural” approach to healing.

Raritan says it makes the products for Homeolab USA, which supplies the belladonna blends.

Despite carrying the Italian term for “beautiful lady,” belladonna is “a substance that can cause harm at larger doses,” Raritan’s recall notice states. “The company is voluntarily recalling the product out of an abundance of caution.”

According to Encyclopedia.com, “ingestion of high concentrations of atropine, a potent alkaloid found in belladonna, can cause severe illness and death. Atropine is fatal in doses as small as 100 mg, which equals 5-50 g of belladonna herb, depending on the potency of the particular plant. For children, a fatal dose is even significantly less.”

[marybourg]

1. It made women "beautiful" because

it dilated their pupils, simulating sexual arousal.

[WhiteTara]

2. thanks for that.

Not at you my dear, I'm sure you had to get that out, but the idea that women are just things that are there to be used at will and were poisoned to simulate what they did not feel.

[marybourg]

3. Yes. But they probably didn't

realize it was poisonous. It's used as heart medicine and was than also.

[lonestarnot]

4. Get used this this kind of bullshit.

[MADem]

5. Why is CVS selling homeopathic crap? It's junk. They might as well

sell water and charge ten bucks a vial for it.