Warning over OTC cold remedy use in elderly patients: case
Doctors in Qatar are blaming pseudoephedrine and caffeine for their octogenarian patient’s first-ever seizure
Doctors have been urged to consider cold and flu tablets as a cause of geriatric seizure cases after an elderly man experienced a new-onset seizure triggered by pseudoephedrine and caffeine in OTC remedies.
The 83-year-old patient presented to ED in Doha, Qatar with an “altered level” of consciousness associated with urinary incontinence.
