COLUMBUS, Ohio -- You trust your pharmacist to give you the right medicine when you're sick, but a Central Ohio mother learned to check the prescription labels twice.
Days after giving her 2-year-old daughter what she thought was amoxicillin, Randie Reed discovered the pink liquid was not the antibiotic after all, NBC 4's Candice Lee reported.
Last Friday, Reed said she took her daughter to their doctor, discovering an ear infection.
Armed with a prescription for amoxicillin, Reed filled the order at the Walgreen's pharmacy on state Route 161 and Maple Canyon Drive.
"The one says amoxicillin, I just figured they both said amoxicillin," Reed said.
Then, on Sunday, Reed said she noticed the bottles, although identical in size and color of substance inside, were two difference antibiotics. One bottle read amoxicillin and the other read cephalexin.
"She had been taking the cephalexin. She took three doses of it, which are two teaspoons each," Reed said.
Fortunately, Reed's daughter did not react to the drug mix-up, but the obvious error concerned Reed.
"I could see it could be an honest mistake. But you can't really take a chance making mistakes with someone's medicines," Reed said.
NBC 4 contacted Walgreen's about the mistake. In a statement, officials said, "Cases like these are rare and we take them very seriously. We're sorry this occurred and we apologized to the family.
"We have a multi-step prescription filling process with numerous safety checks in each step to reduce the chance of human error.
"We will investigate what happened and what can be done to prevent it from happening again."
For additional information, stay with nbc4i.com and NBC 4 and refresh nbc4i.com -- Where Accuracy Matters.
To submit a story idea or news tip, e-mail us at stories@nbc4i.com.
NBC 4 POLITICS: Headlines, Interactives & Video
MORE: NBC 4 Local News | Local Crime News
NBC 4 SPORTS: Sports News, Video
Email
Facebook
Google
Twitter
Favorites
More
Advertisement