Baby put at risk of fatal dose; MEDICAL ERROR 2.A MUM was in danger of giving her baby a lethal dose of medicine after a blunder by staff at a cash-strapped hospital. Four-month-old Aeryn Robertson needs to be given Ranitidine ranitidine /ra·ni·ti·dine/ (rah-ni´ti-den) a histamine H2 receptor antagonist, used as the hydrochloride salt to inhibit gastric acid secretion in the treatment of gastric and duodenal ulcer, gastroesophageal reflux disease, and to control her milk allergy Milk allergy is an immunologically mediated adverse reaction to one or more cow's milk proteins. In some people the ingestion of cow's milk can trigger the body into launching an inappropriate immune response to the proteins in milk resulting in an allergic reaction. . But mum Samantha was told to give her nearly eight times the correct dose at Worthing Hospital, West Sussex. If she hadn't spotted the error, Aeryn could have had a heart attack. Samantha, 22, said: "You wouldn't normally check. But if we hadn't, our daughter would be in the mortuary." The hospital is fighting to save its maternity unit from NHS NHS abbr. National Health Service NHS (in Britain) National Health Service cutbacks. A spokesman for the NHS Trust said: "We apologise for any distress caused. We will carry out a thorough investigation." |
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