So O has her first really bad cold since dx. Just took her to ped and ear infection. Ped prescribes Amoxicillin...this after we went over all her current meds mind you.
Pick up script (which was happily filled by pharmacist) and here is the warning:
Methotrexate/Penicillins
This information is generalized and not intended as specific medical advice. Consult your healthcare professional before taking or discontinuing any drug or commencing any course of treatment.
Medical warning:
Serious. These medicines may interact and cause very harmful effects. Contact your healthcare professional (e.g. doctor or pharmacist) for more information.
How the interaction occurs:
Penicillin antibiotics may decrease the ability of your kidneys to remove methotrexate from your body.
What might happen:
The levels of methotrexate in your body may increase and cause serious. possibly life-threatening, side effects.
What you should do about this interaction:
Let your healthcare professionals (e.g. doctor or pharmacist) know that you are taking these medicines together. Your doctor may want to monitor the amount of methotrexate in your blood, change the dose of your methotrexate, or change your antibiotic. Let your doctor know right away if you develop nausea, stomach pain, yellowing of the eyes or skin, dark urine, fever, fatigue, a persistent sore throat, easy bruising or bleeding, black stools, a change in the amount of urine you pass, skin rash, breathing problems, dry cough, diarrhea, or mouth sores while taking these medicines together or after finishing taking these medicine together.Your healthcare professionals may already be aware of this interaction and may be monitoring you for it. Do not start, stop, or change the dosage of any medicine before checking with them first.
So for starters, really?! Why do we have to police everything? I mean it could be nothing and just one of those CYA warnings but then shouldn't doc have said, "you will see this warning and it is fine don't worry"
And really? If I notice nausea, stomach pain, fatigue, mouth sores, diarrhea call the doc? Did I mention she has IBD?
Fever or dry cough...um yeah...already has those.
Too funny. Oh well, GI nurse hasn't heard from me in a month so she probably misses me terribly.