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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Monday, Feb. 17, 1986
Local care providers rid shelves of Tylenol
By Lynn Maree Ross Staff writer
Extra-Strength Tylenol has been advertised as the pain reliever hospitals recommend most, but some Lawrence residents and health-care professionals are not as confident about the product as they once were.
Diane Elsroth, Peekskill, N.Y. died last weekend after taking Tylenol capsules tainted with cyanide. Tests on the capsules remaining in the bottle found three other capsules also contained the poison.
A second bottle containing poisoned capsules, discovered in a Bronxville, N.Y., store, prompted a nationwide warning about the product. Even so, the Tylenol hot line said the company was not withdrawing the product from the market.
Ada Robson, charge nurse at *Civilian Manor of Lawrence*, a healthcare home at 3015 W. 21st St., said she had removed the Extra-Strength capsules from the shelves and was using the tablets instead.
"I myself don't use them anymore," she said.
Cheryl Tallent, staff pharmacist at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, said yesterday that all Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules had been removed from the shelves. But discontinuing
the use of the capsules was not a permanent measure.
Tallent said her confidence in the makers of Tylenol was unchanged, even with the latest poison scare.
"I think their policies show that they put out a quality product," she said.
For now, she said, the hospital is using a generic brand of pain reliever, acetaminophen. Acetaminophen also is marketed under the brand name Tylenol. However, the brand the hospital uses is not made by McNeil Co., the Pennsylvania-based company that manufactures and markets Tylenol.
The Tylenol hot line said the McNeil Co. had manufactured and sold its pain reliever only under the Tylenol name.
John Baughman, director of the pharmacy at Watkins Memorial Hospital, said even though the manufacturers of Tylenol had had a second poisoning problem, the situation wouldn't change the hospital's use of the products. The hospital uses some Tylenol products, but not the Extra-Strength capsules.
Although some people still are confident about using Tylenol, the latest problem has caused some consumers to look differently at all types of pain relievers.
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