The Food and Drug Administration is warning health-care workers of the very real risk of errors while using two separate health-care products that have similar sounding names.  The first product is a wart remover, and the other is an eye salve.

The wart removal product is called Durasal, and has not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration.  The eye salve cream is called Durezol and has received FDA approval.  The agency is aware of at least one incident in which a pharmacist mixed up the 2 drugs.  The patient was given the wrong drug, and suffered serious injuries as a result.  The pharmacist apparently confused Durasal with Durezol.  According to the agency, this is not the first time that there has been confusion between these 2 drugs.

Normally, the Food and Drug Administration screens product names in order to avoid the possibility of confusion with other products that have similar names.  However, in this case, screening was not done because Durasal is not an approved product.  The agency has asked the Illinois- based company that distributes Durasal to remove the product from the market place because of the confusion with the eye salve product.  However, the company has not responded to the agency’s request.  Now the agency is asking consumers and health care workers to take care and ensure that they are using the right product.

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