CHENNAI: The Directorate of Drugs Control issued an advisory to stop the use, sale and distribution of Almont-Kid syrup as the medicine was found to be adulterated with Ethylene glycol (EG). The Puducherry government and a few other states had already issued an alert on the syrup. <\/p>\n
In its public alert notice issued recently, the Directorate of Drugs Control said, it has explicitly prohibited the purchase, sale and consumption of the Almont-kid syrup (Levocetirizine Dihydrochloride and Montelukast Sodium Syrup) Batch No. AL-24002, manufactured by Tridus Remedies, a Bihar-based company following lab reports of adulteration with Ethylene glycol (EG), a toxic substance, which on consumption, can lead to kidney failure and death. <\/p>\n
Retailers, distributors, hospitals, and pharmacies in Tamil Nadu have been directed to remove this batch immediately and report if the product is being supplied or sold.<\/p>\n
Healthcare providers have been urged to monitor for symptoms of EG poisoning in patients who may have consumed the affected syrup. <\/p>\n
For consumer guidance, contact 9445865400.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHENNAI: The Directorate of Drugs Control issued an advisory to stop the use, sale and distribution of Almont-Kid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[214654,64,63,137,490],"class_list":["post-421450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-almont-kid-syrup","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-medication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}