Conference misery::feline_v1

>>>    Sudafed -- warning
    
specifically, the 12 hour capsules are at issue.  If you have
any 12-hour capsules, do not take them.  Two people have died from poisoning
in one lot number of the drug.  Sudafed 12-hour capsules are being recalled
nationally because they are sold in blister packs - leading the manufacturer
to accept the possibility that tampering occurred before the capsules were
packaged.  The deaths have been limited to Washington state so far - one
other person did end up in the hospital, but survived.  From descriptions of
the effect of the drug, these capsules are LOADED - the victims collapsed
within minutes of taking a dose.

It's getting scarier out there....

    
    
    	Tossed mine in the garbage last night.  Bought them quite
    	a while ago but I'm not taking any chances!
    
    	JJ
    

    
    
    We checked the lot number and we were one digit off......scary isn't
    it!

    >	Tossed mine in the garbage last night.  Bought them quite
    >	a while ago but I'm not taking any chances!
    
    Caution -- you should dispose of old medications in the toilet. Tossing
    them in the trash makes them accessible by dogs, cats, and wildlife
    (skunks, raccoons, etc.) who rummage through garbage -- either at the 
    curbside, or at the landfill.
    
    Mike

    I guess there IS an advantage to not being able to take
    pseudo-ephedrine.

    I heard on the news this morning that they found a problem with
    a different lot number of Sudafed.  It appears most of the
    problems have been with the 10 pack and the same lot number....
    but they also found one case where there was a 20 pack and a 
    different lot number.
    
    I say....throw them all down the toilet!
    
    Sandy

    re: throw them in the toilet.
    
    I think it might be better for you to return them to the store or
    any store just so the company can find out what has and has not been
    tampered with.  The information might help them track down the culprit.
    Boy! I'd like to see that sadist caught.  GGGRRRRRR !!!!!!!!

    YEAH, Fry the sick-o!!!
    
    I just wanted to point out something I heard on the news this AM. It
    seems that the people who were killed/sickened by the tainted capsules
    failed to take caution with, or failed to notice the tampering of the 
    package.
    
    So ANYTIME you open ANYTHING that seems suspiciously, or even accident-
    ally unsealed, just don't take any chances....BRING IT BACK! I never
    ever, ever, ever, use anything that seems tampered w/ since that
    tylenol scare!!
    
    What kind of pleasure could this weirdo get from seeing news reports of
    unknown people dieing!?! I hope they find this guy & give him the
    leathal injection!! Great point, NDC re:returning them to the store/co.
    
    Bon

    The store will *refund your money* for the recalled product.
    (Sudafed will reimburse them, and, in turn, probably be reimbursed
    by their insurer.)
    
    Some of these meds are expensive.  And it wasn't MY fault I got
    stuck with about $12 of sudafed capsules.  It figures...I always
    used to by the regular tablets.  Recently was the FIRST time I
    bought the long-acting capsules.
    
    After the tylenol scare, I would only buy tablet forms of meds,
    no capsules.  Got real paranoid, and even asked the pharmacy
    to change one of my prescription meds from the capsule to tablet
    form.  They said other people had made similar requests.  I'm back
    to capsules now, however (slippery = easier to swallow  ;-)

>    Some of these meds are expensive.  And it wasn't MY fault I got
>    stuck with about $12 of sudafed capsules.  It figures...I always
>    used to by the regular tablets.  Recently was the FIRST time I
>    bought the long-acting capsules.
    
I only did that once....the long acting caps knocked me out in 30 minutes...
oh well, I guess I have an advantage in being very vulnerable to the side
effects of these drugs.  I had to give up all of them except a caplet of
Benedryl at night when I go to bed if I'm really in trouble.

I'm not sure they will find this poisoner.  It's been on the news strong
enough to bring on "copy-cat" murderers...unfortunately, there are some
very amoral people out there.

    Yes, its strange how these things run in "batches"...sigh.  Guess
    we'd better be extra careful with everthing - medicines and FOODS too.
    I seem to recall jello that was tampered with in one of the earlier
    poisonings.