My son was prescribed Veetids (Apothecon, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company)
for Strep throat. After giving him one dose I discovered it had lactose
as an ingredient(this was on the inside label, no where obvious). He did
not react to it but I was not going to continue to give it to him until
he did. I called our Dr. and got the usual -well is he lactose intollerant
or allergic?- response. After explaining that a milk allergic child
should not be exposed to any part of milk we finally got our usual
prescription of amoxicillan which has always used sucrose as a binder(but
I made the pharmicist double check). Just wanted to give the rest of the
moms a heads up on this antibiotic. My son is 5yo and it was a liquid by
the way.
Hope your Holidays are Merry!
Carmen