An eight-month-old baby was in intensive care last night after mistakenly being given a drug used to treat diabetes at a clinic in Pingtung County.
Nine children were given the drug at Love First Clinic (
According to Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, the baby was in a coma and suffered high intracranial pressure, low blood sugar level and cerebral edema.
"We sent her to an intensive care ward right away to lower her intracranial pressure and give her a ventilator to help her breathing," said a doctor at the hospital, Huang Li-tung (
Tan Kai-yuan (譚開元), head of the Department of Health's Bureau of Medical Affairs, reported yesterday the clinic mistakenly placed glibenclamide -- an oral antidiabetic agent -- into a bottle usually containing antihistamines.
The children, all under the age of 10, started to foam at the mouth after being given the drug. Some lapsed into unconsciousness.
The medicine can lead to a sudden lowering of blood sugar.
Tan warned that the mistake could have wider implications.
"Investigations have revealed that the clinic has been placing the wrong drug in the bottles since Dec. 7," Tan said.
Tan called on the 150 patients who have been prescribed drugs by the clinic since Saturday to go to hospitals to have their blood sugar levels checked and to stop taking the drugs immediately.
The Pingtung Prosecutors' Office has begun investigating the error and questioned the clinic's staff.
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