Patient/caregiver was educated on contraindications for using Morphine as follows:
- Do not take Morphine, if you ever manifested any allergic response to intake of Morphine. Discuss your history of allergic response to this medication with your physician, without fail.
- Do not take morphine with alcohol. Both alcohol and morphine can cause dizziness and depress the respirations. When taken together, their effects on the brain and respirations can get added up and lead to severe dizziness and respiratory depression and can even be fatal. Also, this can increase your risk of liver damage, as morphine with alcohol is a dangerous combination for the liver.
- Morphine can interact with a lot of other medications, thus resulting in serious side-effects and toxicity. Concomitant administration of drugs like OTC cough medications and antihistamines, other opioid medications like hydrocodone and codeine, muscle relaxant medications, antidepressant medications, antipsychotics, and antianxiety medications, can also result in extreme depression of brain and respirations, thus potentiating the dizziness, confusion, and breathing difficulties caused by morphine and so, must be avoided taking along with morphine.
