{"id":5348,"date":"2008-02-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.dev\/?p=5348"},"modified":"2008-02-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T00:00:00","slug":"zyprexa-instead-of-zyrtec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/zyprexa-instead-of-zyrtec\/","title":{"rendered":"Child Given Zyprexa Instead of Zyrtec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/wp\/images\/medicine-label.jpg' alt='Medication Mix-ups' border='0' align='left'>According to <a href='http:\/\/today.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/22901039\/' target='_blank'>msnbc.com<\/a>,the U.S. Pharmacopeia report shows that the rate of drug name mix-ups has more than doubled since 2004, primarily because of new drugs with similar names to pre-existing drugs.<\/p>\n<p>One child was given the schizophrenia drug Zyprexa instead of the allergy drug Zyrtec.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The patient returned to the ER after fainting, at which time the medication error was discovered,&#8217; states the report.<\/p>\n<p><b>Always read your medication labels!<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to msnbc.com,the U.S. Pharmacopeia report shows that the rate of drug name mix-ups has more than doubled since 2004, primarily because of new drugs with similar names to pre-existing drugs. One child was given the schizophrenia drug Zyprexa instead&hellip; <\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-categories\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[188],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}