Nigeria's National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control said Thursday that at least 25 children have died after consuming a contaminated teething drug in the African country.
The food and drug agency said that the children who were killed after consuming the contaminated drug were aged between 3 months and four years, and added that it had shut down Barewa Pharmaceuticals, the Lagos-based manufacturer of the tainted drug.
The agency said that the teething drug, called My Pikin, had been tainted with industrial solvent diethylene glycol, which causes kidney failure in children.
The agency also appealed to the doctors across the country to look for the symptoms of toxic poisoning in babies, which include diarrhea, vomiting, fever and convulsions, along with the inability to pass urine for several days.
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