Patients being treated with furosemide for high blood pressure should go to their medicine cabinet to check the batch number of their medication. Two batches of this diuretic from the Teva laboratory had to be recalled by the National Medicines Safety Agency (ANSM). Indeed, following a packaging problem, “some tablets have been replaced by sleeping tablets (Zopiclone also called Imovane”, indicated the ANSM in a press release dated June 8.
Boxes from lots Y175 (expiration date: 08/2015) and Y176 (expiry date: 08/2015), – each lot contains 95,000 boxes -, have therefore been withdrawn from sale since Friday evening and people who already have boxes bearing these numbers must return them to their pharmacist who will provide them with a new one. . The Teva laboratory indicated that the alert had been “given by a pharmacist whose patient had observed unusual drowsiness effects”.
A toll-free number has been made available to people taking this diuretic. This is 0800 51 34 11.
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