[Snowy]

Sorry if this was already posted, but I did do a search. I checked 'Snopes' and this is TRUE.

[FourtySeven]

The number seems valid (they're actually too busy to take the call right away!), so this seems like it's worthy of a bump.

Thanks for the heads up!

[dinasour]

While PPA was banned, this was a long time ago. None of these products currently use it, unless they have been in your medicine chest for a long time.

The ban was very controversial as well. The product has been in use for fifty years until the "We are all gonna die!!" crowd got a hold of a statistically insignificant study.

See: http://www.junkscience.com/foxnews/fn111000.htm

[etabeta]

I checked with my doctor and he said the study is 2 or 3 years old and the companies have already switched to other ingredients. He did not know about the children's remedies though. Considering I take what the doc says with a grain of salt, it's better to double check.

[Bruce Kurtz]

Our dog is actually on this drug for urinary incontinence. I did on google search on this drug about a week ago. Vets feel that the stroke risk is low for cats and dogs so it really does not have an impact on them. The articles that I read say the FDA pulled this drug a couple of years ago for people because of the risk of stroke in young women. I did not know it was still on the market?

Bruce Kurtz

[HeadOn]

Didn't this come out last year, some time? We could not get the Alka-Seltzer Cold Plus stuff last winter, because it was yanked. They've since manufactured a replacement.

Is this new?

[MineralMan]

This is extremely out of date. The ban on this drug took effect in the year 2000. No current products on the market use this ingredient. By posting this old information, which includes the names of medications that no longer have this ingredient, you perpetrate a fraud.

A simple search on Google would have revealed the truth here.

IMPORTANT: Not everything forwarded to you in email is accurate, up-to-date, or appropriate for posting in FR.

[vin-one]

going through the medicine cabinet right now, thanks for the heads up ,
worth bumping

BTTT

[gnarledmaw]

I see that youre already getten beat up a bit but heres a bit of a tip, for everyone really...

PLEASE PASS THIS ON. THIS IS SERIOUS DO PASS ALONG TO ALL ON YOUR MAILING LIST

This line, or one similar to it, is almost always at the end of every hoax, virus hoaxes especially. You see, the intent of the person originating these messages is that you do as they say, and everyone you send it to does as it says. Soon the traffic caused by all of the forwards and the repeated duplication of the message uses up all system resources and grinds traffic to a halt. Effectively they have infected the email server with something that has the same effect as a virus without having to write the code.

[AppyPappy]

PLEASE PASS THIS ON. THIS IS SERIOUS DO PASS ALONG TO ALL ON YOUR MAILING LIST

If you ever see this in an email, delete it. Don't forward it and don't post it anywhere.

[Snowy]

Sorry for the post. It is NOT a hoax, but it is old, I found out later. I keep cough medicine around longer than I should, so it was good that I saw it (found some bad stuff in a cabinet).