A chilly and flu nasal wash product is being recalled after it examined optimistic for a harmful micro organism.
Ascent Client Merchandise Inc. introduced a voluntary recall on the FDA’s web site on Tuesday, Feb. 24 of its SinuCleanse Comfortable Tip Squeeze Bottle Nasal Wash System after a check outcome confirmed there was a “microbial contamination of the product with Staphylococcus aureus.”
In response to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Staphylococcus aureus is a micro organism “generally discovered on the pores and skin and within the nostril of about 30% of people” that may trigger pores and skin infections, or if it will get into the physique, can result in “critical or deadly” signs.
The recall impacts the SinuCleanse Comfortable Tip Squeeze Bottle Nasal Wash System with an expiration date of Dec. 31, 2027. The product is described as “a nasal wash of the nasal passages to assist quickly relieve signs related to sinusitis, chilly, flu or allergic reactions.”
The product is packaged in a carton containing a “squeeze bottle and 30 Saline Packets,” and it was distributed throughout the U.S. each in retail shops and on-line in January 2025, in response to the corporate. The lot variety of the product is “024122661A1.”
Ascent Client Merchandise Inc. famous that folks “whose nasal mucosa could also be compromised as a result of irritation and mechanical accidents” who use their product contaminated with the micro organism could get a blood an infection.
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Individuals may get “secondary infections” together with endocarditis, an “an infection of the guts’s interior lining,” “bone and joint infections” or “bacterial sinusitis,” which in response to the recall “could result in eye tissue infections, imaginative and prescient issues, cranial nerve harm or meningitis.”
“These infections are critical and probably life-threatening,” the corporate stated.
To date, “no antagonistic occasions” have been reported to Ascent Client Merchandise Inc. but in relation to the recall, the corporate stated.
Clients who bought the product have been suggested to discontinue utilizing it and instantly return it the place it was bought or discard it. The corporate famous that if clients “expertise any issues associated to using this product,” they need to contact their doctor or healthcare supplier.
Distributors have been additionally contacted by the corporate and requested to “stop distribution” and “take away” the merchandise from their stock.
