My youngest son, Spidey, has been sick for the past 4 days. He’d get sicker and then get well and then get sicker, usually at night. Finally today we called the doctor and made an appointment. My regular doctor is out of town for the rest of the week, so he saw another doctor in the practice.
Come to find out, he has strep throat. My husband opted not to get him the shot (he’s too softhearted, ay yi yi!) and instead opted for the 7 days of antibiotics.
When he got to the pharmacy, the prescription was flagged because of my son’s allergy to red dye #40. They called the doctor’s office and asked to change the prescription and the doctor’s office basically said we’d have to suck up my son’s hyperactivity and tantrums due to the red dye #40 in the medication…for 7 days. Seriously, what?
I am so angry right now I could spit.
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That doctor is a jerk. I can't wait for you to tell Spidy's real doctor what that guy did.
Posted by: Ginger | April 3rd, 2008 8:06 pm |
I think that is soooo unreasonable of the doctor's office not to change the prescription. I'm from a medical family, and I know prescriptions get changed all the time because the patient has a known reaction or develops a reaction during the course of the medication. It is possible that the doctor when he or she wrote the prescription did not know that the antibiotic carried at your pharmacy had red dye no. 40, but upon being alert to this I thought they would have changed it. Strep throat is a common illness, for which, I think, there are several antibiotics that can treat it. I don't understand why they wouldn't change the prescription.
Posted by: Jessica | April 3rd, 2008 8:24 pm |