Four-week old baby hospitalised after pharmacy labelling error

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Four-week old baby hospitalised after pharmacy labelling error

Jonathan Chilton Towle 2019

Jonathan Chilton-Towle

Newborn baby, hospital CR Pekkak on iStock
A baby stopped breathing and was hospitalised after mistakenly being given five times the prescribed dose of Redipred [Image: Pekkak on iStock]
Essentials A pharmacist mistakenly dispensed an oral steroid with an incorrect label, resulting in a four-week-old baby receiving five times th, News Red w/ Pale