Light sensitive medications

RE: Light sensitive medications

Rob Loxley — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 08:40:49 GMT

[quote user="Andrea Tarr"]I wouldn't have thought that any are so unstable that they need to be covered during use[/quote]

Doesn't stop people selling brown giving sets and people ardently wrapping things in tinfoil

RE: Light sensitive medications

Andrea Tarr — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 14:09:22 GMT

I would think that protection from light relates to storage - and for a formulation that is dispensed for use over a period of time (e.g. month's supply of tablets) - so these should be stored in their outer packaging or dispensed in brown bottles etc. For products that are going to be used immediately (iv fluids) I wouldn't have thought that any are so unstable that they need to be covered during use. For example the SPC for metronidazole says that during storage the product should be kept in the outer carton to protect from light, but under instructions for use there is no instruction to protect from light. I might be wrong - are there any examples? If so, the SPC should make it clear.

RE: Light sensitive medications

Ceri Gruffudd Jones — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 07:57:38 GMT

I managed to find some light blocking bags from Helapet (I think) For fluid bags / CRIs. Only a few pence each. I reckoned cheaper for the practice than the miles of vetwrap!

RE: Light sensitive medications

Thomas Johnson — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 12:12:39 GMT

[quote user="Sarah Keir"]

What is everyone doing about light-sensitive medications? The more I look, the more I find! Some are in brown bottles but some aren't. What about the difference between storage and giving especially if a CRI like metoclopramide.

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With CRIs the nurses tend to wrap the drip bag in Vetrap. With light sensitive medication that doesn't come in a clear bottle most of them come in a cardboard box, and as you're supposed to keep it in the box with the datasheet until you've used it all and throw it away it shouldn't be a problem.

RE: Light sensitive medications

Bob Russell — Sat, 29 Dec 2018 11:03:09 GMT

Marvellous! You have provided me with another thing to worry about that had never crossed my mind to be a problem!!!

I do wonder how much u/v light there is within a building, perhaps rather more now we have LED lighting?

RE: Light sensitive medications

Michael Woodhouse — Fri, 28 Dec 2018 20:35:32 GMT

You can get UV blocking giving sets from Millpledge

http://www.millpledge.com/aniset-uv-c2x24212506

RE: Light sensitive medications

Rob Loxley — Fri, 28 Dec 2018 20:30:01 GMT

[quote user="Sarah Keir"]What about the difference between storage and giving especially if a CRI like metoclopramide.[/quote]

Store in the dark, when made up in CRI use within 24hrs?