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Journal Article
Norflox or Norflex?
1992
Overview
To the Editor:
Recently, the trade name for omeprazole was changed from Losec to Prilosec after several physicians noted incidents in which prescriptions written for Losec were instead dispensed with Lasix.
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We report a similar confusion between a popular new antibiotic, the fluoroquinolone norfloxacin, and a muscle relaxant, orphenadrine. Although the trade name for norfloxacin is Noroxin, it is frequently abbreviated as \"norflox,\" which can lead to confusion with orphenadrine, the trade name for which is Norflex. We have noted two cases of such confusion.
In one case, a 60-year-old woman with end-stage liver disease was prescribed norfloxacin as . . .
Publisher
Massachusetts Medical Society
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