Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
A girl of 12 ended up in hospital twice after taking insulin that was more than a year past its use-by date.
On each occasion diabetic Britney Phelps had injected herself with the insulin pen she kept by her bedside at the family?s home in Cobham Rise, Gillingham.
When she was admitted to Medway Maritime Hospital for the second time, nurses asked her mum Tina Simpson to bring in the insulin Britney had taken.
It was then noticed the expiry date on the box and the pen was January 2011.
Mrs Simpson, 40, who picked up the repeat prescription from the Sturdee Avenue Pharmacy on February 16 this year, said: ?To be honest, you put your trust in professional people like pharmacists and I never thought to check the expiry date.
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentonline/news/2012/may/4/insulin.aspx
On each occasion diabetic Britney Phelps had injected herself with the insulin pen she kept by her bedside at the family?s home in Cobham Rise, Gillingham.
When she was admitted to Medway Maritime Hospital for the second time, nurses asked her mum Tina Simpson to bring in the insulin Britney had taken.
It was then noticed the expiry date on the box and the pen was January 2011.
Mrs Simpson, 40, who picked up the repeat prescription from the Sturdee Avenue Pharmacy on February 16 this year, said: ?To be honest, you put your trust in professional people like pharmacists and I never thought to check the expiry date.
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentonline/news/2012/may/4/insulin.aspx