Personal Injury Law

Multiple Sclerosis Patients Hit Hard After Using Triad Alcohol Prep Pad

By Darren Tobin

While many people have suffered some form of pain from Triad products, one group of people who are suffering not only painful outbreaks but potentially significant setbacks in their course of recovery, are patients with Multiple Sclerosis. Triad alcohol prep pads included in the medication Copaxone packaging used by patients with Multiple Sclerosis, is perhaps doing more harm than good. It may be that rather than cleaning and sanitizing the injection site as per its intended use, the Triad alcohol prep pads are injecting bacteria into the patient's body thereby causing extensive pain and outbreaks.

What is Copaxone

Copaxone (Glatiramer Acetate) is used to reduce episodes of symptoms in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. Glatiramer Acetate is in a class of medications called immunomodulators. It works by stopping the body from damaging its own nerve cells (myelin). Glatiramer Acetate is sold as a solution and is injected into the fatty layer just under the skin (subcutaneously). Typically, the medicine is injected once each day. The first dose of Glatiramer Acetateis adminisered by the patient's doctor. Thereafter, it is the patient who injects himself daily. Glatiramer comes in prefilled syringes and each syringe contains enough medication for one injection.

How Does the Triad Alcohol Prep Pad Affect Copaxone Medication

Here is where the Triad product comes into play. Before each injection, the patient should clean the area of his body where he is about to inject himself. (You can inject the Glatiramer Acetate into seven parts of your body: either arm, thigh, or hip; and lower stomach.) It seems that the "cleaning" that supposedly helps in the process, the motion of swabbing the injection site and rubbing the skin, is very likely exposing the patient to a bacteria which is then pushed into the skin.

What Are Some of the Adverse Reactions that Patients With MS are Having

While there are a variety of symptoms and pains that MS patients are experiencing after injecting themselves, the more common symptoms we are finding include: rashes, sores, intense internal pain/numbness at the injection site area and itching.

Should MS Patients Stop Taking Their Medication

No, do not stop with your medication! Please be advised that anyone who has MS and uses the Copaxone medication should NOT stop with their treatment. You simply should stop using the Triad alcohol prep pad. It is important to continue your daily injection routine. There are alternate alcohol pads available to clean the site prior to the injection. These alcohol swabs can be purchased at Walgreens, CVS, Publix, or Rite Aid.

What Can You Do to Help Yourself or Someone You Care About Who Has MS

If you, or someone you know, has Multiple Sceloris and has experienced any pain or unusual symptoms, please feel free to contact our attorneys at (800) 641-0098. We are currently working with many clients who have MS and have used the Triad products to their detriment.

Full post as published by Atlanta Personal Injury Lawyer on March 09, 2011 (boomark / email).