Apple Flavored Baby Drops Recalled

September 2007

Parents – your home remedy to relieve the upset stomach or growing pains of your infant could hurt more than it helps. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has discovered the dangerous cryptosporidium parasite in bottles of apple flavored Baby’s Bliss Gripe Water.

Gripe water is a home remedy used to soothe ailments associated with infancy. Common ingredients vary, but often include alcohol, bicarbonate, chamomile, dill, fennel, and ginger. Many parents administer gripe water to their young children with a dropper several times a day until the symptoms of discomfort disappear.

The cryptosporidium parasite found in Baby's Bliss could lead to dehydration, diarrhea, fever, nausea, stomach cramps, vomiting, and weight loss in young children that consume the tainted gripe water. Adverse symptoms may begin anywhere from two to ten days after infection.

The recalled bottles of apple flavored Baby’s Bliss Gripe Water carry a product code of 26952V and an expiration date of October 2008. Nearly 18,000 bottles of the product were sold across the nation and over the Internet from November 2006 to September 2007.