Antibiotic Dicillin recalled from pharmacies

People who use Dicillin Sandoz 500 mg antibiotic pills are asked to return the medicine to a pharmacy and have it replaced.

The Danish medicines agency has been made aware that a small number of patients treated with Dicillin 500 mg from the company Sandoz have been infected with multi-resistant CPO bacteria, and that the bacteria may originate from the medicine.

The bacterium was discovered in nine patients from October 2022 to January 2023. The suspicion is presently directed at one single batch of Dicillin manufactured in September 2022.

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While it is being investigated if one batch or a larger selection is involved, Sandoz, the company marketing the medicine, has recalled all Dicillin packages and put them in quarantine.

The Faroese Pharmaceutical Service says it is important not to stop treatment but to have the medicine replaced with another antibiotic.

Pharmacies have been informed to dispense an alternative medicine.

Read the Faroese version of this article here.

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