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chapter 23 Isoniazid 159
Don’t Forget!
Although guidelines recommend adding pyridoxine
for preventing neuropathy only in high-risk
patients, there’s no downside in recommending it
to all your patients receiving isoniazid. Don’t confuse
pyridoxine with pyrazinamide (discussed in
the next section) and assume that your patient is
receiving both drugs when he or she is not. Most
patients with tuberculosis should be taking both
pyridoxine and pyrazinamide during the initial
phase of therapy.