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SimplyThick: Public Health Notification - Risk of Life-Threatening Bowel Condition
May 20, 2011
AUDIENCE: Consumers, Pediatrics, Emergency medicine
ISSUE: FDA notified parents, caregivers and health care providers not to feed SimplyThick, a thickening agent for management of swallowing disorders, to infants born before 37 weeks. The product may cause necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), a life-threatening condition characterized by inflammation and death of intestinal tissue.


