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Nursing mothers warned that codeine use may increase risk of serious side effects in infants.(Drug Safety)
Magazine article from: Adverse Event Reporting News; 8/27/2007; 372 words
; ...morphine overdose if their mothers are taking codeine and are ultra-rapid metabolizers of codeine. The agency issued a warning Aug. 17. The agency...abnormally high after taking small doses of codeine to treat episiotomy pain. A genetic test showed...
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Unapproved analgesic sales stopped. (Esgic with Codeine)
Magazine article from: FDA Consumer; 4/1/1990; ; 317 words
; ...unapproved new drug. The analgesic, Esgic with Codeine, manufactured by Forest Pharmaceuticals...Mo., contains acetaminophen, caffeine, codeine, and butalbital (a barbiturate). Although...sought or received approval for Esgic with Codeine, which the company began selling on April...
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Nurse gives fatal overdose of codeine to child.(Nursing Law Cases of the Month)
Newspaper article from: Nursing Law's Regan Report; 8/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...twice the prescribed amount of Capital of Codeine to a nine-year-old boy while he was in...the medicine cup used to dispense the codeine was not easy to read and failed to contain...Nurse Robinette) administered Capital of Codeine, an opiate, to Matthew. To administer...
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Codeine and Coughing.
Newspaper article from: Pediatrics for Parents; 1/1/2001; 183 words
; ...cough suppressants - dextromethorphan and codeine. Cough medicines containing the first usually end with DM. Codeine containing cough medicines often end with...recent report questions the effective of codeine as a cough suppressant. The researchers...
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Woman's death from codeine poisoning was accidental.
Newspaper article from: Melton Times & Citizen (Melton Mowbray, England); 3/14/2008; 124 words
; ...of accidental death after she died of codeine poisoning. Norma Wright, of Lake Terrace...Kirkman who said there were lethal levels of codeine in her system. But it concluded the drug...Mr Kirkman said: The cause of death was codeine toxicity and it was the taking of her...
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How to take your medicine: acetaminophen-codeine.
Magazine article from: FDA Consumer; 1/1/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...prescribed drugs is about acetaminophen-codeine combinations. One of the most widely prescribed...reliever in the United States, acetaminophen-codeine is a combination of two medicines: acetaminopehn...drugs as over-the-counter Tylenol; and codeine, a narcotic (morphine-like drug) that...
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Uncommonly common poisonings in children. (alcohol and cough medicine with codeine)
Newspaper article from: Pediatrics for Parents; 9/1/1997; ; 589 words
; ...had been administering to the child frequent and rather large doses of cough medicine containing codeine. What she didn't realize was that codeine is a narcotic, meaning it is in the morphine family. In large doses, respiratory arrest can result...
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Why such a large discrepancy?(Readers respond)(Letter to the editor)
Magazine article from: Medical Laboratory Observer; 10/1/2006; 383 words
; My question concerns blood codeine levels. The table found at MLO at this...lists therapeutic blood levels for codeine of 13-33 nanograms per milliliter...table gives a toxic blood level for codeine of 1.1 micrograms per milliliter...
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Treating Tonsillectomy Pain.
Newspaper article from: Pediatrics for Parents; 3/1/1999; ; 152 words
; ...Advil, Nuprin, etc.) or acetaminophen with codeine? And is one safer than the other? To answer...bleeding was 0% in the acetaminophen with codeine group and 12.5% in the group receiving...that doesn't have the side-effects of codeine. However, in a postoperative setting...
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Small is responsible: life grows from the bottom up. Administration kills from the top down.(EDITOR'S NOTE)
Magazine article from: Western Standard; 11/6/2006; ; 700+ words
; THE PAIN OVERCAME THE CODEINE AT 3 a.m., so my crumbling left hip gave me another sleepless night...could take until next summer. But I can't take anything stronger than codeine (at night) because I have this new job at the Western Standard and...
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