Pharmacy gave our baby wrong dosage

while you were lucky this time there was no harm don eit could have been a lot worse and killed the child.

not sure who to report it to but it should be

Contact your GP just to make sure no harm was done.

how is it preposterous. this time it was ok . your post shows that the over dose was no harm . im not disputing that.

but at the end of the day the pharmacist gave out the wrong medication than what was perscribed. the pharmacist could have very easily given the wrong type of medication instead of the wrong amount.

it happened to me . im elergic to penacillen and the pharmasist gave me something with it in it. luckely i showed them to my mother before i started taking them and she realised. it was after the dentist and i had told them about the penacillen and he perscribed something diferent

Have to take these things seriously and record the events, while it did no harm and the patient is ok, the pharmacists reaction was a bit fazed IMO and if the issue is dealt with in a professional way, it is potentially preventing a more serious incident in the future.

How was the pharmacist reaction a bit fazed?

Read the OP

There are many professionals now aiming to change guidelines for antibiotics for children. Instead of taking the full course they recommend to take it while the kid is sick. If he/she has recovered, I don’t see the need in continuing to treat

1- prescriptions are dispensed double checked in almost all pharmacies. Still, errors can happen. The rate of errors in Ireland is similar to other countries. That is about 3 errors per 10000 items dispensed.

2- errors in hospitals are far more common, with some studies showing up to 250k preventable deaths happening in US hospitals per year (Even though some studies say that that number should be as low as 22k)

https://news.yale.edu/2020/01/28/estimates-preventable-hospital-deaths-are-too-high-new-study-shows

3-what I find preposterous is the claim from the poster saying that the mistake could’ve easily killed the baby

4- dispensing errors have to be taken seriously and every pharmacist that I know does

5- after nearly 20 years working in Ireland, I don’t know of any employee pharmacist making 6 figures as you declare. By all means people can shop around, but in the pharmacy profession, not all is price differences. The relationship with your local pharmacist is very important, as it is your trust in him/her.

6- pharmacists are the most trusted professionals in Ireland. The problem is that if the GP or prescriber makes a mistake, this is usually spotted by the pharmacist, but as we are the last link on the chain, our mistakes reach the patient.

https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/2021-03/veracity_index_2021_2.pdf

I would imagine a pharmacists assistant does the second check?

Jaysus - Catastrophe syndrome. It was a higher dose of an anti-biotic. f the op has concerns they contact the GP not put it on a forum so that the scaremongering snowflakes can come up with ridiculous theories.

Most pharmacies would have one pharmacist for every 100-150 items dispensed per day. If there are more than 200/day, there usually is a double cover. So if we go with 150 items per day, a pharmacist would check an average of 15/hour or so. Having said this, this is not the only job that he/she does. And there are busier times when there are more than 20-30 per hour. The pharmacist has to check not only that the item dispensed is the prescribed one, but that it is appropriate for the patient in terms of strength, dose, frequency and so on; that it doesn’t interact with other medicines that the patient may be taking; that the patient knows how to take it; and so on

A friend of mine received incorrect epilepsy medication from a pharmacist over the course of a 12 month period - should have received slow-release meds, was given the regular-release meds (drugs had the same name, so wasn't spotted by either pharmacist or friend). It meant that for most of that year, she wasn't properly medicated.

During those 12 months, she collapsed on the street twice (taken to hospital both times), was absent from work several times due to feeling ill (and not knowing why), and, scariest of all, went missing one evening - she was so confused, she got off a train at the wrong stop, and wandered around for over 2 hours not knowing where she was, and unable to formulate her thoughts to make a phone call. Gardaí eventually found her (safe and well, but confused).

When the hospital finally worked out the reason for all the incidents, she went back to her pharmacist, who shrugged their shoulders and said nothing. It took the woman a couple of years to get her confidence back, she was afraid to go outside the door in case she had another strange episode.

Not quite "catastrophe syndrome", but scary nevertheless. I can only imagine how scary it feels for parents of a baby who realise they've given the baby too much medication. Hope baba is doing well now, OP.

They were definitely not lucky, as they got the wrong dose. To imply that they were lucky that the baby did not die is again, scaremongering.

well, what happened to my baby many years ago was for the pharmacist to dispense the wrong antibiotic. really. realized after first tries giving it to my child that it had an unusual smell - so opened the guidelines : it was a urinary tract infection antibiotic, instead a respiratory one... brought it back - the pharmacist was so embarrassed while apologizing (good thing then was that my baby didn't like taking medicine at the time, so barely got some) ... this experience made me more cautious, started to doublecheck everything baby related, and I also stopped going to that pharmacy for prescriptions (do get cosmetics from them on occasion).