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Recalling
Add another item to your recall list. I learned today, from the ever amusing and interesting folks at Beauty Brains that a lot of Gripe Water (the brand is Baby's Bliss, apple flavor, product code 26952V, expiration date October 2008) has been recalled because cryptosporidium were found in it. Cryptosporidium, if you haven't met them- and I hope you haven't, are unpleasant parasites that lodge themselves in the digestive tract and create great unhappiness and sometimes great danger for their hosts. They are really nothing one wants to encounter in any ingested substance, but they are really nothing one wants to find in a tonic one is giving to one's infant.
So this sent me running to the medicine cabinet because I actually have a bottle of the stuff left over from Sebastian's first month of life when he made noise constantly. Day in and day out, he rattled along, sounding sort of like an engine that wouldn't catch or maybe an old radiator. "What are you eating?" was the question various people leveled at me when they heard him. "If you're breastfeeding, you must be doing something to make him this uncomfortable." I don't know what I was eating but he didn't really seem to be that uncomfortable, just noisy. The few times he did seem really unhappy I ladled a little Gripe Water into him and it had no effect whatsoever. Subsequently we moved on to Infant Mylecon drops that also didn't change the racket, but having all of these remedies on hand gave me a sense that one of them might work, that I might be able to be effective in some way at some point. Sebastian has since stopped the all-night growling, without my intervention.
But now a component of my stash has a recall. My drops are not from the tainted lot, and aren't even apple flavored, but I'm wondering what to do with them. Should I keep them just in case I need to revive the hope that something might work on some future gassy gripe? Or would I be better off approaching it in the rather hysterical way that I'm a little reluctant to embrace, which is to throw out everything even connected to the brand because one never knows?
Anyway, you parents of gassy infants, check your bottles.
posted by Elise at 11:11 AM
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