A PHARMACY blunder saw one woman's mother overdose on her medication, resulting in the need for round-the-clock care after it "nearly killed her", Yahoo News has reported.
Lisa Carratelli said her mother Maria was prescribed methotrexate for treating her rheumatoid arthritis.
The Maroondah Hospital, Vic, where Maria presented started questioning her medication and called the dispensing pharmacist.
"She was to take two [tablets] once a week, but the pharmacy had packed the webster packs with two tablets daily, that's seven times the prescribed amount," Carratelli said.
A discharge document from Box Hill Hospital, where Maria was later sent, suggested the 87-year-old was suffering from "methotrexate toxicity resulting in mucositis with pancytopenia".
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