{"id":17312,"date":"2019-05-27T07:07:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T12:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomseymour66.com\/?p=17312"},"modified":"2019-05-27T07:07:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T12:07:56","slug":"tylenol-for-infants-and-children-is-the-same-why-does-1-cost-3-times-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomseymour66.com\/tylenol-for-infants-and-children-is-the-same-why-does-1-cost-3-times-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Tylenol For Infants And Children Is The Same. Why Does 1 Cost 3 Times More?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Infants’ Tylenol comes with a dosing syringe, while Children’s Tylenol has a plastic cup. Both contain the same concentration of the active ingredient, acetaminophen.<\/p>\n

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Infants’ Tylenol comes with a dosing syringe, while Children’s Tylenol has a plastic cup. Both contain the same concentration of the active ingredient, acetaminophen.<\/p>\n

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If you’ve ever had a little one at home with a fever, you might have noticed two options for Tylenol at the store.<\/p>\n

There’s one for infants and one for children. They contain the same amount of medicine \u2014 160 milligrams of acetaminophen per 5 milliliters of liquid \u2014 but the infant version costs three times more.<\/p>\n

What gives? It turns out, there’s a backstory.<\/p>\n

For decades, Infants’ Tylenol<\/a> was stronger than the children’s version<\/a>. The thinking was that you don’t want to give babies lots of liquid medicine to bring down a fever \u2014 so you can give them less if it’s stronger.<\/p>\n

“It was three times more concentrated,” says Inma Hernandez<\/a> of the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy. Since it contained more acetaminophen, the active ingredient, she says, it made sense that it was also more expensive. “The price per milliliter was five times higher,” Hernandez says.<\/p>\n

But there was a problem: Parents were making mistakes with dosing. Babies got sick \u2014 some even died<\/a>. So in 2011, at the urging<\/a> of the Food and Drug Administration, the maker of brand-name Tylenol, Johnson Johnson, announced a change<\/a>: Infants’ Tylenol would be the same concentration as Children’s Tylenol.<\/p>\n