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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 94603" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>A couple of things - in Australia (and I would have thought it was the same in the US and elsewhere) medications are strictly controlled and registered. part of the registration and documentation is giving the medication properties which will be unique to that product. For example, you can look it up (MIMS, for us) and read the identifying description. "It contained X and Y ingredients as active; inert contents are J and L. It is a round/square/rectangular pill//lozenge flavoured cherry/banana/no flavour and coloured with [give number and name]. It is marked on one side with the company logo and on the other side a half-score and a number corresponding to the number of mg in the dose."</p><p></p><p>For example, easy child as a baby couldn't have anything coloured with tartrazine (colour 102). She got thrush and was given a liquid form of nystatin which was described as being cherry flavoured, and coloured with tartrazine. It totally sent her loopy, and I complained tot he chemist about WHY did they have to colour a medicine intended for babies. That's when I learnt about the need to individually identify the drug by appearance, so using the guide book (FDA in the US; TGA in Australia) anything legitimate could be identified without the packaging being needed.</p><p></p><p>With easy child, we were unable to get a liquid nystatin from any other company - I had to get adult lozenges designed to be sucked - white, with spearmint flavour - and crush them up to a powder so I could give them to easy child. She hated it - but having her fight me at dosage time was better tan her in a screaming rage the whole time (as she was on the colouring).</p><p></p><p>See if you can get an equivalent product from another company - it should be sufficiently different so as to not infringe copyright and allow for individual identification.</p><p></p><p>And your loss of voice - when you have difficult children and you get laryngitis, get a whistle. It works really well.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 94603, member: 1991"] A couple of things - in Australia (and I would have thought it was the same in the US and elsewhere) medications are strictly controlled and registered. part of the registration and documentation is giving the medication properties which will be unique to that product. For example, you can look it up (MIMS, for us) and read the identifying description. "It contained X and Y ingredients as active; inert contents are J and L. It is a round/square/rectangular pill//lozenge flavoured cherry/banana/no flavour and coloured with [give number and name]. It is marked on one side with the company logo and on the other side a half-score and a number corresponding to the number of mg in the dose." For example, easy child as a baby couldn't have anything coloured with tartrazine (colour 102). She got thrush and was given a liquid form of nystatin which was described as being cherry flavoured, and coloured with tartrazine. It totally sent her loopy, and I complained tot he chemist about WHY did they have to colour a medicine intended for babies. That's when I learnt about the need to individually identify the drug by appearance, so using the guide book (FDA in the US; TGA in Australia) anything legitimate could be identified without the packaging being needed. With easy child, we were unable to get a liquid nystatin from any other company - I had to get adult lozenges designed to be sucked - white, with spearmint flavour - and crush them up to a powder so I could give them to easy child. She hated it - but having her fight me at dosage time was better tan her in a screaming rage the whole time (as she was on the colouring). See if you can get an equivalent product from another company - it should be sufficiently different so as to not infringe copyright and allow for individual identification. And your loss of voice - when you have difficult children and you get laryngitis, get a whistle. It works really well. Marg [/QUOTE]
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