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

    Infants' Tylenol is the same strength as Children's Tylenol. Turns out, the price difference has to do with packaging and safety features.
    by Selena Simmons-Duffin May 27, 2019 3 minutes
    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.

    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.

    For decades, was stronger than the . The thinking was that

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