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Wednesday, December 29, 2004"In the name of children everywhere, our family wants Children's Motrin taken off the market until it carries a warning label about the risk of Stevens-Johnson Syndrome and describes its symptoms," the girl's mother said in a statement. Steven's Johnson syndrome is a severe immune reaction that can be triggered by a variety of outside factors - from drugs to viral or bacterial infections. There is no way to tell whether the child's reaction was caused by the Motrin or by the virus that presumably caused her fever. It is one of those illnesses that is unpredictable and unavoidable. And this suit is one that never should have been filed. The attorney involved isn't one to miss any pertinent opportunity, however: "This is the equivalent of a medical tsunami -- there was no warning put out whatsoever on this apparently benign, over-the-counter medicine," Sabrina Brierton Johnson's attorney Browne Green said. I'm not sure how an illness that strikes 2 to 3 people per million world wide over the course of a year qualifies as a natural disaster on the scale of tsunami that kills over 100,000 people within the blink of an eye, except that they're both due to uncontrollable forces of nature. The other difference is that you can, apparently, predict a tsunami. There's no predicting Steven's-Johnson syndrome - at least not with our current knowledge and technology. posted by Sydney on 12/29/2004 09:03:00 PM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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