Pharmaceutical distributor AvKare is voluntarily recalling 100mg sildenafil tablets and 100mg trazodone tablets due to a “product mix-up,” the company just announced.
The tablets were “inadvertently packaged together” when they were bottled by a third-party vendor.
Sildenafil is the active ingredient in Viagra, which is used for the treatment of erectile dysfunction.
Trazodone is used to treat major depressive disorder.
Talk about a mix-up! When you think you’re taking a drug to make you feel better, you may be taking something to increase blood flow to your reproductive organs.
While it may sound funny at first, the results can actually be serious.
According to the FDA, unintentional consumption of sildenafil may pose serious health risks to consumers with underlying medical issues.
For example, sildenafil may interact with nitrates found in some prescription drugs (such as nitroglycerin) lowering blood pressure to dangerous levels.
Consumers with diabetes, high blood pressure, or heart disease often take nitrates.
Unintended intake of trazodone may result in adverse health consequences such as somnolence/sedation, dizziness, constipation, and blurred vision.
These adverse events may be more concerning in elderly patients due to a subsequent increased risk for falls and driving impairment.
Unintentional intake of trazodone can result in sedation, dizziness, constipation and blurred vision.
So far, AvKare said, it has not received