>Just wanted to mention that although these sheets always accompany
>prescriptions that we have received, there have never been any
>combination warnings or specific statements about the drug. Always
>general and generic comments. And none of these prescriptions were from a
>small or private pharmacy. Just a major national chain. So buyer beware.
>Anat
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>
There's a significant difference between the customer information sheets
that some pharmacies give out and the data sheets that the drug
manucacturers send to the pharmacists along with the medicaitons. The
former are watered-down boilerplate intended to convey proper use
instructions and standard warnings to contact a physician in the case of
adverse reactions. Sometimes they even help out by listing the more common
ones. The prescription drug data sheets that are in the PDR and sent with
the medication to the pharmacist are much more detailed and technical, and,
if read by the average citizen, can be confusing and potentially alarming.
That's one reason why some pharmacists keep them to themselves - they don't
want to unnecessarily alarm the patient (or patient's parents) with
difficult-to-decipher tables of frightening sounding adverse reactions or
remotely possible complicaitons of use. But that doesn't help us with our
difficult task, which is to try and detect a pattern among similar allergic
reactions to various medications.

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Mark Feblowitz