OTC🌵

Question 1

What drug should be avoided in chicken pox and why?🐓

Answer 1

IBUPROFEN

Increased risk of serious skin infection - necrotising fasciitis

Question 2

How much pseudoephedrine OR ephedrine can you legally sell at a given time?

Answer 2

720mg of pseudoephedrine

OR

180mg of Ephedrine

Question 3

What drugs contain Archas Oil?

Archas oil = Peanut oil

Answer 3

Ceromol (for ear wax)

Naseptin (nasal cream)

Colpamin (peppermint oil)

Salmeterol (LABA - only generic versions?)

Question 4

Chloramphenicol counselling points?

Answer 4

5-day course of ABx

1 drop every 2 hours (during awake hours) for 2 days
1 drop every 4 hours for 3 days for 3 days

Don’t touch eye with dispenser/bottle
Take contacts out - not preservative free (or refer?)
Store in fridge is drops

Question 5

What is the API of viagra connect and what must be done after 6 months?

Answer 5

Sildenifil 50mg

Must have a doctors appointment after 6 months

Question 6

What’s the minimum age of aspirin use and why?

Answer 6

> 16 years

Risk of Rayes syndrome in younger than 16

Rayes syndrome: rare but serious condition that causes swelling in the liver and brain

Question 7

Counselling points for Hedrin (dimeticone 4%)?

Answer 7

Leave on hair for a minimum of 8hrs/can be left overnight

Wash out with normal shampoo

Repeat after 7 days

Use nit comb alongside?

Question 8

Ovex (Mebendazole) counselling?

Answer 8

> 2 years

Can repeat after 14 days if reinfected

Hygiene advice