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Babyâ??s Bliss Gripe Water recalled by FDA; contaminated with Cryptosporidium
Sep 24: The US Food and Drug Administration have recalled Baby’s Bliss Gripe Water. This was prescribed for babies to get relief from colic, hiccups, and teething.
The FDA said that laboratory analysis has confirmed the presence of Cryptosporidium in Baby’s Bliss Gripe Water after investigating the illness of a six week old baby from Minnesota who consumed Gripe Water.
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The product is distributed by MOM Enterprises, Inc., of San Rafael, California.
In a guideline, FDA instructed that consumers should check their Baby’s Bliss Gripe Water and see the code given on the bottle. The contaminated products carry the code 26952V with an expiry date of October 2008.
FDA also instructed to dispose of the unopened bottles of the product.
FDA released the statement in which it said that the product has been recalled back and estimated that about 17,600 bottles of product have been distributed in retail stores and sold over the internet since November 2006.
The FDA has said that about 17,600 bottles of the product have been distributed nationwide in retail stores and sold over the Internet since November 2006.
Pediatrician recommend apple-flavoured Baby’s Bliss Gripe Water, for babies as a herbal supplement used to ease the gas and stomach discomfort often associated with colic, hiccups, and teething.
FDA recommended going for medical advice who have consumed Baby Bliss recently.
Adults are also known to take gripe water for soothing intestinal pains, gas, or other stomach ailments, but in larger doses.
Cryptosporidium is a parasite causes diarrhea or cryptosporidiosis and completes its lifecycle in a single host. Cryptosporidiosis is a short term infection but can become severe and none resolving in children and immuno-compromised individuals as AIDS patient.
It is transmitted by cysts passed with the faeces, and is a infection of intestinal epithelial cells in small intestine. According to the FDA, the most common symptom of infection is watery diarrhea.
Other symptoms include dehydration, weight loss, stomach cramps or pain, fever, nausea and vomiting. Symptoms generally begin two to ten days after becoming infected with the parasite and generally last one to two weeks.