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overdose
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overdose [′ō·vər‚dōs]
(medicine)
An excessive dose of medicine.


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In case of overdosage in Botox treatment, then special treatment of antitoxin combined with artificial ventilation will be needed as usually it affects the paralysis of respiratory muscles.
The agency is proposing that certain changes in labeling, which would make available important new information about the safe use of a drug product, could be made if the applicant submits a supplement when making label changes "that add or strengthen a contraindication, warning, precaution, or statement about an adverse reaction, drug abuse, dependence, or overdosage, or any other instruction about dosage and administration that is intended to improve the safe use of the product.
More than 500,000 deaths occur that are related to drug overdosage in the United States alone.
 
 
 
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