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NORTH COLLEGE HILL, Ohio -- After some school employees suspected that a second-grader suffered from a hyperactivity disorder, a school health aide gave that child an anti-hyperactivity drug that had been prescribed to another student, a lawsuit says.
After receiving the unprescribed dose, the child experienced "rapid heartbeat, excessive blinking, involuntary movement of his limbs and labored breathing," then spent a night at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, says a lawsuit that attorney Alison Warner filed on behalf of the child's mother, Trina Jones, last week.
The suit, filed in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court, says the child also has suffered "daily anxiety and panic attack-like symptoms," and it accuses school employees of negligence in an incident on Jan. 5, 2011, at North College Hill Elementary School.
Schools Superintendent Gary Gellert declined to comment Tuesday.
The suit says several school employees told Jones they thought her son suffered from ADHD -- attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
Jones' suit, though, says a doctor diagnosed him with enlarged adenoids and tonsils, which caused sleep deprivation and touched off "perceived behavior problems at school and his alleged inability to focus in class," the lawsuit says.
Jones asserted that she did not want her child to be medicated for any behavioral disorder and that the child had no prescription medication on file at the school, according to the suit.
On the date in question, the child "did not complete his work in class," so he was sent to a school official's office, the suit says. That's when the health aide administered the medication, Focalin, the suit alleges.
Aide Teresa McDonough wrote a statement saying, "I honestly thought I was giving (another child) medicine. Both boys have very similar features, which also led me to believe this was (the child who had been prescribed the medicine)."
School officials issued McDonough a written reprimand for failing to ensure that medication was given to the correct child, documents filed in court say.
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/01/09/lawsuit-wrong-drug-given-second-grader/1819687/
After receiving the unprescribed dose, the child experienced "rapid heartbeat, excessive blinking, involuntary movement of his limbs and labored breathing," then spent a night at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, says a lawsuit that attorney Alison Warner filed on behalf of the child's mother, Trina Jones, last week.
The suit, filed in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court, says the child also has suffered "daily anxiety and panic attack-like symptoms," and it accuses school employees of negligence in an incident on Jan. 5, 2011, at North College Hill Elementary School.
Schools Superintendent Gary Gellert declined to comment Tuesday.
The suit says several school employees told Jones they thought her son suffered from ADHD -- attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
Jones' suit, though, says a doctor diagnosed him with enlarged adenoids and tonsils, which caused sleep deprivation and touched off "perceived behavior problems at school and his alleged inability to focus in class," the lawsuit says.
Jones asserted that she did not want her child to be medicated for any behavioral disorder and that the child had no prescription medication on file at the school, according to the suit.
On the date in question, the child "did not complete his work in class," so he was sent to a school official's office, the suit says. That's when the health aide administered the medication, Focalin, the suit alleges.
Aide Teresa McDonough wrote a statement saying, "I honestly thought I was giving (another child) medicine. Both boys have very similar features, which also led me to believe this was (the child who had been prescribed the medicine)."
School officials issued McDonough a written reprimand for failing to ensure that medication was given to the correct child, documents filed in court say.
from
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/01/09/lawsuit-wrong-drug-given-second-grader/1819687/
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