Mother of boy who died from wrong medication calls for better reporting of pharmacy errors
TORONTO — An Ontario mother is calling for better tracking of errors made by pharmacies after her son died from what she called a devastating “careless mistake.”
Melissa Sheldrick’s eight-year-old son Andrew was diagnosed with a sleep disorder called parasomnia and began taking medication for the problem in October 2013.
For a year and a half, Sheldrick refilled her son’s prescriptions every two weeks at Floradale Medical Pharmacy, a compounding pharmacy in Mississauga, Ont., that dispensed the medication in liquid form.
On March 12, Sheldrick gave her son a dose from a new refill of his prescription before he went to bed. The next morning, she said her boy was found dead.