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A good dose of precaution can help avoid drug harm, says Yukon family

 
BY ANN KELLEY | Published: January 23, 2009    Comment on this article Leave a comment

YUKON — Mindy Koenig was nearly in tears, thinking about what could have happened to her baby if she had followed the directions on her daughter’s prescription bottle.

photo - The wrong dosage was printed on a prescription for 6-month-old Story Koenig, of Yukon, shown with her father, Chris Koenig. PHOTO BY ANN KELLEY, THE OKLAHOMAN
The wrong dosage was printed on a prescription for 6-month-old Story Koenig, of Yukon, shown with her father, Chris Koenig. PHOTO BY ANN KELLEY, THE OKLAHOMAN

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• State officials said consumers can protect themselves by going over their prescriptions with a physician and double-checking prescription bottles with pharmacists.


• To file a complaint with the state Pharmacy Board or to find disciplinary actions against pharmacies, go to www.ok.gov/OSBP/index.html

Koenig said her 6-month-old, Story, was prescribed Albuterol for a respiratory virus with specific instructions from her doctor to give the baby a 1.5 cc dosage. The prescription was filled Tuesday at a CVS pharmacy in Yukon, but on the bottle were misprinted instructions to give the child one and one-half teaspoons – about five times more than the right dosage.

CVS apologized to the family and offered to refund the $8 for the cost of the medicine.

Koenig said the medicine was nearly at her baby’s lips when her husband, Chris Koenig, stopped her.

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