Risk is low in short courses
- 12 August 1995
- Vol. 311 (7002) , 450-451
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.311.7002.450b
Abstract
EDITOR,--We were concerned to read Marie Doona and J Bernard Walsh's editorial on the use of chloramphenicol as topical eye medication.1 Despite the drug's widespread use, since 1966 the Committee on the Safety of Medicines has received only 11 reports of haematological reactions (all non-fatal) suspected to have been caused by ocular chloramphenicol (personal communication). In the past 10 years more than 200 million ocular topical chloramphenicol products were dispensed for community use in England alone (Department …Keywords
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