Posted on 06/22/2016 4:32:41 AM PDT by BenLurkin
An 8-year-old boy in Colorado died this month after a local pharmacy made a massive error in his medication dosage.
Jake Steinbrecher overdosed on his usual medication of Clonidine used to treat his sensory processing disorder — a drug his parents didn't want him to take to begin with.
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"Drugging our child definitely wasn't something we wanted to do," his mother Caroline Steinbrecher told the Daily News.
"The Clonidine was a compromise I could live with, because it was a non-addictive drug," she added.
Steinbrecher said that the drug is usually considered safe for children under the age of 8, but not at 1,000 times a normal dosage.
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The night he passed, Steinbrecher remembered taking Jake to dance class where he practiced for an upcoming recital.
"That was honestly so important to him, to make it to that practice," she told the News.
"He died before he was able to perform."
To remember Jake's gift for dance, Steinbrecher created the Jake Steinbrecher Dance Fund...
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
That would be manslaughter.
Yet another drug to treat ADHD (which is basically the diagnosis that a boy is behaving like a boy; and today’s society will not tolerate that).
I can just imagine how many times a day this happens when you see what actually works behind the pharmacy counter in the chain stores.
How sad. One of my daughters takes Clonidine for a sleep disorder.
> Yet another drug to treat ADHD (which is basically the diagnosis that a boy is behaving like a boy; and today’s society will not tolerate that).
They should rename it BBLB.
“...(which is basically the diagnosis that a boy is behaving like a boy; and today’s society will not tolerate that).”
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You’ve got it. A HUGE issue with the feminized public schools today - they simply will not allow (as you say) boys to be boys.
Yet another reason to home school. Or find a Common Core-free school that has a male Principal.
Sensory processing refers to the way the nervous system receives messages from the senses and turns them into responses. For those with Sensory Processing Disorder, sensory information goes into the brain but does not get organized into appropriate responses. Those with SPD perceive and/or respond to sensory information differently than most other people. Unlike people who have impaired sight or hearing, those with Sensory Processing Disorder do detect the sensory information; however, the sensory information gets “mixed up” in their brain and therefore the responses are inappropriate in the context in which they find themselves.
Sensory Processing Disorder or SPD (originally called Sensory Integration Dysfunction) is a neurological disorder in which the sensory information that the individual perceives results in abnormal responses. A more formal definition is: SPD is a neurophysiologic condition in which sensory input either from the environment or from one’s body is poorly detected, modulated, or interpreted and/or to which atypical responses are observed. Pioneering occupational therapist and psychologist A. Jean Ayres, Ph.D., likened SPD to a neurological “traffic jam” that prevents certain parts of the brain from receiving the information needed to interpret sensory information correctly.
Shame, I can’t even begin to imagine how the pharmacist could have been so far off. Going to cost him big time, but not as much as it cost the poor parents. So sad all the way around.
Milligram vs. microgram. Different by a factor of 1,000.
I do marvel and wonder about the presribed dose actually covering a range of that size!
Yeah I hadn’t thought of that.
It doesn’t.
A 1mg dose of Clonidine would be flagged for an adult.
the range in adults is 0.1 to 0.2.
“Drugging our child definitely wasn’t something we wanted to do,”
Am I missing something or have we gotten to government mandated prescriptions now?
Approximately 8 out of 10 medical errors occurs in the pharmaceutical order-entry-fill process.
Always check, ask questions, and question the answers. Or find a place that uses pharmacy robotics.
Here's a long but very detailed account of a similar computer error which almost killed a kid at UCSF.
“a drug his parents didn’t want him to take to begin with.”
Ummm..don’t give him the drug then
See my #17 which is a story about a pharmacy robot that almost killed a kid.
Yep, that's the issue. We all know there would be no errors if we just had enough regulations.
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