Got this email.... Not sure if it is true.....

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by devon 01 Sep 2011 ( edited Sep 04'11 11:03 )

Subject: IMPORTANT!!!....DO NOT MIX THESE 2 MEDICINES....

DO NOT MIX THESE 2 medicines - can cause death.

Do not mix these two medicines. Motrin & Robitussin
Please read below from the University of Miami Health Systems Alert!!!!....forward to your loving family and friends....
Subject: mixing medicines

This was sent to us from a nurse in a school district.....
thought I'd better pass it along just as an FYI.
"Motrin and Robitussin don't mix"!!!!!
Madison , age 8, passed away just a few days ago.
Please pass this on.
Doctors told her family that there have been quite a few children
Madison 's age that have died recently the same way that she did.
The only common link between them was that they were given Motrin
(ibuprofen) and Robitussin together, this caused a heart attack.
They believe this is what happened to them.
They told her to alert everyone to this.
"Do not give children both of these medicines together."
You can give them one or the other but not both.
When Madison collapsed she suffered a heart attack and they were able to
revive her but the loss of oxygen damaged her brain and she was put on
the respirator.
After this she had four strokes before she died after being taken off
the respirator. Please pass this on!!!!!!!!!
Lisa Lopez M.A.
Children's Medical Center of Dallas
Pulmonary Clinic
214-456-2693 phone
214-456-5406 fax
THANK YOU
PLEASE PASS ALONG TO YOUR LOVING FAMILY AND FRIENDS __________

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by mysew1325 01 Sep 2011

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I just sent it to every one I know that has small children.. thanks...

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by marjialexa 02 Sep 2011

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I don't know if this particular e-mail is true or not, but it is ALWAYS good to check with your doctor before giving any medication to children!!! So many medicines have tylenol or ibuprofen in them now, and it's not obvious unless you really read the labels, that you could be giving your child a double or triple dose. This does apply to adults, too, but generally it takes a little more to kill us than to really damage a 30 lb. child. Just an opinion, but when we were sick as kids, we got chicken soup, vicks rubbed on our chests, and put to bed to sleep it out. Maybe, if we were dying or lost fingers or fell from the rooftop, we would get a St. Joseph baby aspirin. Boy, I'm glad I don't have any grandkids to worry about making these kind of judgement calls. I think less is better with kids. Please take care, and check with your doctors about any medicines you give kids. Hugs, Marji

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by devon 02 Sep 2011

I am with you, I have no kids or grandkids. But I am like you when we were little my dad did the same things when we got sick. DeVon

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by airyfairy 03 Sep 2011

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I will pass this on to my daughter. I have never heard of these medicines.

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by marjialexa 03 Sep 2011

These are brand names from the USA. "Motrin" is a brand of ibuprofen, an aspirin substitute for use in reducing fever and pain. "Robitussin" is a brand of cough syrup. I don't know if these brands are available in South Africa, but I'm sure you know some brand of ibuprofen. Hugs, Marji

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by jofrog2000 04 Sep 2011

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Here is some informationa about this email, read it before sending the first on. I always check snopes.com when one of these scare emails comes through. Most are recirculated from years ago and change slightly as they go.

1 links:

[1] http://snopes.com/medical/drugs/motrin.asp

snopes.com

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by devon 04 Sep 2011

thanks well look next time, sorry.

by ansalu 04 Sep 2011

We have her also hat kind of mails coming up about aids-needles in cinema-chairs, visiting cards soaked with drugs or people who need a blood donation cause of leukemia. My BIL sended me one and didn't picked up that he sended me the same mail 4 years ago!
We have an office for security in the net and there you can watch for the list of those "hoaxes". The technical university in Berlin also has a list where you can check and they put on some background information if the beginning of one of those mails was a true story.
Terrible that some stupid heads send out such stuff just for the fun to frighten and unsettle other people :o(
Greetings, Bettina

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