Pharmacy’s Terrible Mistake Leads To 8-Year-Old’s Tragic Death

When a child passes away suddenly, it can be almost unbearable for their heartbroken parents to move on, but one couple is using their son’s untimely death to inform others about the unfortunate tragedy that killed him.

Jake Steinbrecher of Loveland, Colorado had been on medication since he was just 5-years-old for a sensory processing disorder and for three years, it seemed to be helping.

“Drugging our child definitely wasn’t something we wanted to do,” Caroline Steinbrecher told the Daily News. “The Clonidine was a compromise I could live with, because it was a non-addictive drug,” she added about the drug normally safe for children.

Then last Halloween, the 8-year-old started acting unusual after taking his normal dosage. Steinbrecher said her son immediately started having an adverse reaction to the drug used to treat high blood pressure and ADHD in children, and was rushed to the emergency room where it was discovered he had brain swelling.

Once the medication was tested it was discovered that Jake had ingested a 1000 times higher dosage than his prescription of 0.3 mg. “It wasn’t a mistake,” Steinbrecher told The Denver Channel of the pharmacist’s miscalculation. “It was a sentinel error.”

Jake was eventually released from the hospital, but died June 8 from what his mom believes was the pharmacist’s admittedly deadly mix-up.

“How could somebody do that?” Steinbrecher said. “How there was no other way to make sure the medicine was mixed correctly before it was out the door other than the say-so of the pharmacist who made it?”

“She’s continued to work on at the pharmacy every day…still has her license still is allowed to make other prescriptions for other children,” Steinbrecher said of how she wants to warn parents.

“People need to be aware of what is being given to their children,” she said. “They trust doctors and they trust pharmacists to do the right thing for them and to keep their children safe, but these are all just people and people make mistakes and errors and that’s where more protection needs to be in place.”

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