A mother has hit out at a drugs company after her baby was rushed to hospital in a serious condition after taking infant medicine.

Four-month-old Jensen Pettitt lost consciousness after taking 2.5ml of Galpharm's Junior Ibuprofen.

Doctors at Maidstone Hospital spent 45 minutes working on the infant before he finally came round.

Now, mum Alison Smith has criticised the drugs firm for withholding information following her complaint.

She said: "Jensen had been ill so we gave him the medicine. We put it on his lips but he was was chucking his arms about and wouldn't take any of it so of course we force fed it to him.

"I then tasted a bit and my mouth went completely numb, while my partner Adrian got a blister on his tongue. At this point we thought 'we have just given our child 2.5ml of this, we need to do something.'

"Jensen was drifting off to sleep so we phoned the 111 NHS service. While on the phone he went floppy, we were banging and clapping and he just wasn't responding.

"The operator told us to get him to A&E as soon as possible. We took him to Maidstone Hospital where a medical team finally got him to wake up. He was very grumpy and disorientated but has since made a full recovery."

The 36-year-old, from Wouldham Court, Wouldham, added she immediately contacted Tesco at Larkfield where she had bought the product and producer Galpharm, which is owned by Perrigo.

Tesco immediately removed the batch — which includes 80,000 bottles in total — from its shelves and also contacted the company.

A Perrigo spokesman said: “Galpharm Junior Ibuprofen meets all regulatory quality and safety standards required for a licensed medicinal product to be sold in the UK.

"The company employs rigorous product safety and quality processes and any adverse event is evaluated with utmost importance and thorough assessment and analysis.

"After comprehensively testing the batch of the Galpharm Junior Ibuprofen in question, no identified concerns or issues with the product were found. We are very pleased to read that baby Jensen is doing well.”

Tesco is now stocking the product again.

But Miss Smith said the pharmaceutical company only provided her with some limited test results on Friday — more than four weeks after her initial complaint — after a social media post about the ordeal attracted more than 26,000 shares.

She added that none of her family are allergic to ibuprofen and Galpharm initially told her no one else had informed it of similar reactions, but on Friday told her there were a number of complaints on file.

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has confirmed it has received more than seven reports relating to the product.

Miss Smith said she has been contacted by scores of parents since she posted on Facebook who have told her their children have had similar reactions to the product.

Any adverse effects should be reported here.