Getting the wrong person’s medication

Getting the wrong person’s medication happens at the pharmacy or the hospital. The pharmacist or hospital nurse does not do their job properly and gives you medication meant for someone else.

You could fall ill after getting the wrong persons medication and through no fault of your own. You could suffer adverse drug reactions and other symptoms when you the wrong prescription medicine.

Getting the wrong person’s medication at the pharmacy or hospital is a serious form of pharmacy negligence.

The medical negligence of getting the wrong medication can have severe long-term effects on your health. Medication errors should not happen and can make you very ill.

The pharmacist giving you the wrong bag of medications at the pharmacy counter does not check the name on the bag against yours, they just hand you the bag.

Wrong name on the bag means the wrong person’s medication is inside it. Without you knowing it, they have given you the wrong person’s medication.

When the pharmacist gives you the wrong bag of medication, it is pharmacy negligence.

You can make a claim for compensation when there is a medication error at the pharmacy.

A mix-up in prescriptions is when the pharmacist works on your prescription but puts the prescription for another person into your bag.

Right name on the bag but the wrong person’s medication inside it. You take the bag with your medication home, but without knowing it, you have the incorrect medications.

Instead of taking the medications as prescribed by your doctor, you are taking someone else’s, probably for a different condition.

Medication errors have serious consequences and should not happen.

By making a claim for pharmacy negligence compensation, you may prevent it from happening to someone else.

Mixing the medications in the bag of medication is when the pharmacist puts part of another person’s prescription into your prescription bag.

The pharmacist, instead of paying attention and ensuring you get the correct medications, makes a medication error. If the pharmacy had safe medication practices in place they could have avoided the negligence.

The mix-up in medications means you are getting the wrong person’s medication as part of your order.

Mixing the medications in your bag of medications has serious consequences. If you take them, you could be mixing medications which should not be taken together and you could suffer adverse drug events such as an overdose.

Another form of pharmacy negligence which should never happen.

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Getting the wrong person’s medication at the hospital can happen when the nurse on the rounds mixes up the medicine cups. The nurse stops to give you your medicine but gives you the cup for the patient in the next bed.

It can also happen in a hospital setting when the healthcare professional connects you to the wrong person’s medication through an intravenous drip.

The nurse takes one medication drip and connects it to your arm. By not looking correctly and cross-checking with your medical notes, they give you the wrong person’s medication.

You are taking the wrong person’s medication. Instead of getting the medication as prescribed by the doctor for your condition, you are taking a different medication or maybe a double dose of your drugs.

If you are recovering from surgery or starting a new medication regime, the medication error can have serious consequences.

Getting sick from taking the wrong medications is the first sign that something is wrong. The right medication is designed to work for a patient’s medical condition, and the doctor prescribes medicine for each patient with this in mind.

Taking the incorrect dose of a medication can make you very ill and the harm caused can be as bad as taking the wrong medication.

Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and problems with kidney function are signs that not all is right with your medications.

Having a bad reaction to the wrong medication can happen in some cases. With high risk medications your body may react, and some horrible side effects can surface.

If your body reacts badly to the wrong person’s medications, you could come out in hives, have bad rashes and suffer a lot of severe pain.

In some cases, taking the wrong medications can cause seizures, loss of consciousness, and even falling into a coma.

Not taking your own medication is another consequence of getting the wrong person’s medication. Your body is used to taking the prescribed medications.

When you do not get them, your body cannot fight your illness or keep symptoms under control.

Healthcare professionals should double check your electronic health records when they administer medications. Sudden withdrawal of a medication is a serious shock to your body or not taking medications, such as anti-seizure medicines, can cause more seizures.

Taking the wrong person’s medication instead of your own means not taking your own medicines, with all the effects that can have on your health.

Mixing the wrong medications can have serious side effects that make you very ill. If you take the wrong person’s medications and your own, you are mixing medications.

In most cases, this is not supposed to happen; medications which are contraindicated are designed not to be taken together.

Problems can happen if the pharmacist mixes your medications with the wrong person’s medication in your bag.

You could be mixing medications for your heart that cause drug interactions with other drugs you are taking.

Symptoms of mixing the wrong medications include illness, losing consciousness and other serious side effects.