Tylenol Infants' Drops

I would like to discuss Tylenol Infants' Drop today. My daughter was recently ill. She had a pretty stuffy nose and was also coughing a little too much for me to be comfortable. She was about 4 1/2 months old at the time. I took her to see her doctor, and he recommended giving her a nebulizer treatment every four hours and giving her about 0.12 mL of the Tylenol Infants' Drops (Cold and Cough). This all actually worked very well. She was coughing less and breather much easier within minutes after giving her the nebulizer treatment, and the Tylenol seemed to kick in within approximately 20 minutes.

I was actually wondering if any of you have experienced a problem I came across concerning the Tylenol Infants' Drops. When she was running low on her drops, I attempted to get more from our local Wal-Mart. It was around 9:20 p.m. on a Saturday night, and the pharmacy was closed. I couldn't get any. I couldn't get a tiny little bottle of her drops because of the new system they have to try to prevent people from using one of the ingredients in it to make drugs. In order to purchase the Tylenol, you need to get it directly from a pharmacist and let them see your photo I.D. I asked if someone else could help me with it. I was more than willing to let them see my photo I.D. I just needed some medicine for my sick, little 4 1/2 month old daughter. The answer was "no". A pharmacist had to get it for me, and the pharmacy, as I mentioned before, was closed until Tuesday. The pharmacy is always closed on Sundays, and Monday was a holiday. I couldn't believe it, to say the very least. I am all for stopping the manufacture of drugs and what not, but when my daughter is sick and needs medicine, a mother should be able to get her the medicine she needs. I promptly informed them of this, and it, as I'm sure you can assume, did absolutely no good. Not only did they not help me, they were actually very rude to me, as well.

After this "incident", I stopped off at the grocery store on my way back home. I wanted to see if, by chance, the pharmacy was open until 10:00 p.m. there so I could get her medicine. There was no way she could make it two days without that medicine. The pharmacy at the grocery was turned out to be closed. However, I was able to buy her drops without a problems. They were sitting out on the shelves, and I wasn't "carded" or anything of the sort when I checked out. This made me feel a lot better, but at the same time it really disappointed me what Wal-Mart had done. If every store in town had been following that "system", I would have had to take my daughter to the emergency room simply to get some over-the-counter Tylenol Infants' Drops!! How ridiculous is that?!

I am wondering if anyone else has gone through this or something like it. I would like to know. And I would also like to know if anyone believes I am over-reacting on this subject. I think it's ridiculous. The Tylenol Infants' Drops bottles are so tiny that you would have to buy at least a dozen to actually do anything with them when it comes to "manufacturing drugs". I guess sometimes I just wonder what this world is coming to and what I am bringing my daughter into. It saddens me at times. Why do certain people out there have to "ruin" the world for everyone else? That's life, isn't it?