Tylenol For Infants And Children Is The Same. Why Does 1 Cost 3 Times More?

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May 27th, 2019

Infants’ Tylenol comes with a dosing syringe, while Children’s Tylenol has a plastic cup. Both contain the same concentration of the active ingredient, acetaminophen.

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If you’ve ever had a little one at home with a fever, you might have noticed two options for Tylenol at the store.

There’s one for infants and one for children. They contain the same amount of medicine — 160 milligrams of acetaminophen per 5 milliliters of liquid — but the infant version costs three times more.

What gives? It turns out, there’s a backstory.

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