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Show - I fPointers For Parents Ask Your ; Family pharmacist 1 ' i ... v, " trnHMmor I ' f-r- TH HMKWU I ' MSOCtATK t Lfmnntuj. J! ..,MT. CephaliiNporins (Oral) At-iul (' VKttti.fiF To be sure you're correctly administering a child's prescription medicine, ask you family pharmacist for a patient information leaflet. How much do you know about the prescription medicine your child is taking? To be effective, prescription medicines must be used correctly. cor-rectly. Your family pharmacist pharma-cist can help you better understand un-derstand your child's medicine through in-store counseling and patient information infor-mation leaflets, known as PILs. These PILs contain the following fol-lowing information: What the medicine does. How the medicine should be taken. Foods, drinks, medicines medi-cines and activities to avoid. Possible side effects, and steps, to take if experiencing experien-cing an undesirable reaction. I The National Association of Retail Druggists has established estab-lished the informative leaflet program in cooperation with the United States Phar-macopeial Phar-macopeial Dispensing Information Infor-mation and its Updates, in the hope of reducing a communications com-munications gap and thus, reducing re-ducing the likelihood of under-informed under-informed consumers needing need-ing treatment for drug interactions, in-teractions, due to mismanagement misman-agement of drug therapy. About 300,000 people are hospitalized each year from prescription drug react'ons and 2,500 die from alcohnl-prescription alcohnl-prescription drug interactions interac-tions many of these are children, chil-dren, teenagers and young adults. |