Posted on 12/29/2004 8:05:06 AM PST by petitfour
LOS ANGELES — The parents of a 7-year-old girl on Tuesday sued the makers of Children's Motrin (search) and several other companies that distribute the painkiller, claiming their daughter lost her eyesight and suffered other severe side effects after taking the medication.
The lawsuit, filed on behalf of Sabrina Brierton Johnson (search) of Los Angeles, seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages against health care giant Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), subsidiary McNeil Consumer & Specialty Pharmaceuticals, and several other firms, including retailers Ralphs Grocery and Albertsons Inc.'s Sav-On pharmacies.
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I would advise if at all possible to give your son a similar colored or (if older) similar tasting placebo for a day and gauge his reaction. If you can, it is best not to administer ibuprofen on a daily basis. P.S., Does he have a Baclofen pump? Just curious.
My daughter recently had an experience with this. The medication did have warnings about Stevens-Johnson Syndrome and said to call the doctor if you developed a rash. She did and we told her to stop the drug immediately. The doctor agreed.
And then the lawyers will help us sue who ever sold the eye-of-newt and toe-of-frog too us, along with the maker of the kettle it was boiled in, and the store we bought the kettle at.
And since the timber industry has deep pockets and is evil, they will also sue them because we used wood to build a fire under the kettle.
Here it goes. The healthcare hysteria triggers an avalanche of frivilous lawsuits.
What ever happened to buyer beware. Read the labels, and use caution.
I guess people don't research such things anymore. The victimize themselves or their children, and expect everyone to pay up when something goes wrong.
READ. All medications have side effects. Not all people will suffer the same fate, but you must educate yourselves.
BAHAHA! (you're not "reading" it right now, are you?)
Trust me, he has no idea what he's getting.
Never heard of a Baclofen pump. For seizure-related activity he gets Keppra and is on the Ketogenic diet (although he's actually on the Ketogenic diet for other reasons -- namely trying to use fat metabolism as a way around his screwed up Krebs cycle).
Apparently it is an allergic reaction; if your son has taken motrin before with no ill effects it isn't likely he would suddenly develop a reaction now; if you noticed a reddening of the tongue or mouth lining soon after his ingestion you should immediately seek professional assistance according to the Googled sites I've just scanned.
Oh my...
"It's lethal if inhaled."
That's a lie!
The reason this story caught my attention is because our son has apparently developed an allergy to Motrin. I had read a story about SJS a year or so ago, but I believe the cause in that story was an antibiotic or phenylbarbitol(sp?). Our son was having hives earlier in the year, and we thought it was due to something he ate. Then we thought it was due to a tooth infection. (he chipped a tooth. initially, there was no detectable problem with the roots.) The infection was treated, and the hives/edema stopped. Until we gave him Motrin several months later. Soooo, we do not know for sure that Motrin was causing his hives/edema earlier in the year, but we do know that his eyes swelled shut the last time he had it. It was very scary every time he swelled up. I took him to the doctor one of the times, and she thought it was an allergy to something in the environment and that it would go away. She told us to give him Benadryl. Anywho, our son has taken ibuprofin with no problem until the last year.
Often, clinicians are simply uninformed of the unfamiliar; sometimes you just have to find the right doctor.
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