If you bought these ranitidine products, you can return them as long as you have your very long receipt.
Pictured here is a CVS Pharmacy in New York City. Note that the CVS announcement is not like the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, a total recall or even a partial recall. They aren’t saying “good GERD, stop taking ranitidine immediately!” Instead, CVS is suspending the sales of the ranitidine-containing products and allowing returns for refunds over what they call an “abundance of caution.”
So what should you do if you bought these products from CVS? First, contact your doctor to see if you really need to be on ranitidine. He or she may suggest lifestyle modifications instead such as cutting down on your coffee, alcohol, and garlic-onion-chocolate-and-tomato pizza consumption.
If you need to be on an H2 blocker, which is the type of medication that ranitidine is, there are alternatives such as Pepcid, Tagamet, or their generic counterparts, famotidine and cimetidine. Therefore, unless your doctor says that you absolutely need to be on ranitidine, you probably want to avoid ranitidine for now.
While the levels of NDMA in the ranitidine products are probably too low to be of major concern over a short period of consumption, it’s a good idea to avoid NDMA when you can. Ultimately, what matters is your cumulative exposure to such chemicals over time.
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