Health Topics

• Give only the amount prescribed by your child's doctor.
• Your child should not take this medication more than five times in one day.
• If giving your child a liquid, carefully measure each dose using an oral syringe or medicine spoon.
• This medicine can be given with food to prevent stomach upset.
• Do not give your child acetaminophen (Tylenol®, Genapap®, Panadol®, Tempra®) or other over-the-counter medications that contain acetaminophen while using this medication.
• Check the labels on all over-the-counter medicines you give your child to make sure they do not contain acetaminophen. Too much acetaminophen may be harmful.
• Do not give this medicine if your child is allergic to codeine or morphine. Contact the prescriber.
• This medicine may make your child drowsy. Watch carefully if your child is performing a task requiring alertness, such as climbing stairs.
• If your child requires this medicine for a long period of time, the dose may need to be slowly decreased and not stopped quickly.
• Do not use after the expiration date on the bottle/package.
• Keep this medication out of the reach of children.
• Contact your doctor if you give your child too much medicine.
• If too much medicine is taken by accident, call the Drug and Poison Information Center (DPIC) at 513-636-5111 or 1-800-222-1222, or call your child's doctor immediately.

• Drowsiness
• Dizziness
• Constipation
• Nausea

• Difficulty breathing
• Skin rashes, hives or itching
• Nausea or vomiting
• Extreme sleepiness or difficult awakening
• Yellowing of the skin or eyes

Constipation (hard or few stools) can be a problem when taking any medication containing codeine. The doctor may also want to have your child take a medicine to help move your child's stools. Be sure to keep your child well hydrated.

Call your child's doctor if the pain and/or cough are not helped by this medicine.

Tablets:
Tylenol #1 (acetaminophen 300 mg + codeine 7.5 mg)
Tylenol #2 (acetaminophen 300 mg + codeine 15 mg)
Tylenol #3 (acetaminophen 300 mg + codeine 30 mg)
Tylenol #4 (acetaminophen 300 mg + codeine 60 mg)

Capsules:
Tylenol #2 (acetaminophen 325 mg + codeine 15 mg)
Tylenol #3 (acetaminophen 325 mg + codeine 30 mg)
Tylenol #4 (acetaminophen 325 mg + codeine 60 mg)

Suspension, alcohol free:
acetaminophen 120 mg + codeine 12 mg per 5 ml

Elixir, 7% alcohol:
acetaminophen 120 mg + codeine 12 mg per 5 ml