Read your drug labels!

I left my doctor's office the other day with a prescription for Augmentin and, although I recognized it as a drug I hadn't taken before, I didn't see anything wrong with it. I went down to my local CVS (which is convenient in its location but not its hours) and my pharmacists filled it without question.

Only when I got the medication home and noticed that my generic version of Augmentin was abbreviated AMOX did I worry. AMOX sounded an awful lot like amoxicillin, which sounds an awful lot like penicillin, to which I am allergic.

Turns out it's a good thing I checked... because all of my concerns checked out and now I have new drugs.

So, kids, it pays to read your prescription lables!