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A patient on Zenhale (mometasone/formoterol) 100/5 and has Seretide (fluticasone/salmeterol) 125/25 available to him, can he use as a replacement?
Neither, it's a question came across in the family and I'm curious to find an answer.What kind of situation are you talking about? Are you a retail pharmacist giving him advice (legally no, you can't tell him its OK to use one as a substitute.) or are you a hospital/nursing home pharmacist wanting to make a recommendation to his physician?
What kind of situation are you talking about? Are you a retail pharmacist giving him advice (legally no, you can't tell him its OK to use one as a substitute.) or are you a hospital/nursing home pharmacist wanting to make a recommendation to his physician?
I'm pretty sure you're legally allowed to give the public drug information...if the patient is in possession of both, it's your right to tell him all this crap is pretty much a patent extension ploy and "me too" drugs and pretty much does the same ****.
So the Seritide is fine, even though different concentration?
Well yeah, I guess I was picturing a situation where the guy had been prescribed Zenhale, but his friend/SO/roommate gets Seretide at a cheaper copay, but doesn't use it as prescribed, so the guy wanted to know if it was OK for him to use his friend/SO/roommates inhaler instead of his own. (I guess because when I work retail and get a question about how does one drug compare to another drug, 99% of the time its a scenario where someone wants to use somebody else's medication.) This is what I mean would not be legal to tell him OK about, but yeah, no problem with just giving drug information on the similarities between the 2.