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The numbers are simply staggering: Every year 1.5 million people are sickened or severely injured by medication mistakes, and 100,000 die. And yet all of those deaths are preventable. What's the answer? We have to protect ourselves. Here are the ten medication mistakes experts say are most likely to kill or cause serious harm.
Medication Mistakes - 10 Common Medication Mistakes That Can Kill You
Seeded on Sun Apr 25, 2010 7:40 PM EDT
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One time, when I went to pick up my prescription for trazodone, I was given tramadol, which gives me seizures. Fortunately, I caught it at the pharmacy and they fixed everything up.
As for interactions between multiple medications, it helps to get all your scripts filled at the same pharmacy. The pharmacy's system will red-flag any potential interactions your medications may have.
It's also just good sense to research any medication you take. I remember that I was prescribed an antibiotic for a UTI (I don't remember what it was), and when I looked it up, I found that it could permanently stain contact lenses, which is something neither my doctor nor the pharmacist told me. New contacts would have set me back $800! I also check any new medications with a pill checker (they have websites for it) to make sure I got the correct pills.
Most of it is just common sense, IMO.
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