Monday, January 12, 2009

Medication Spelling of the Day

Among a number of minor misspellings on a hand-written med list (including daly 4 times and dayly once) was:

hydrochorot

Hydrocodone?
Hydrochlorothiazide?
Hydrocortisone?
Hydro-Cobex?
Hydrochloric acid?

3 comments:

annahannah said...

I am willing to bet it is HCL, taken PO 4 times dally. ummm hmmm, tastes so good as it goes down.

Anonymous said...

It's probably albuterol. Flippin' everybody is on albuterol, whether they need it or not.

Uro*MA said...

i know for a fact this is Hydrochlorothiazide, my pt came in and needed a refill, lol but the pharmacy can only fit so many letters on the bottle, and for the elderly and sometimes for us, thats confusing!! :-) And ive seen more than one pharmacy spell that wrong, yep it happens!!