New alert: Progesterone Diluent Allergy

Progesterone IM is available as a specialty compounded product in different food-type oils:

Sesame oil (commercially available)

Cottonseed oil

The system is unable to add drug allergies for each of the diluents above, so an alert was developed to aid in notifying prescribers of a patient's oil allergy.

In outpatient clinics, this alert will fire if progesterone IM is ordered and the patient has a documented food allergy to one of the oil types above.

UMC only dispenses the commercially available progesterone IM product which has a diluent of sesame oil. If a patient is admitted to UMC and progesterone IM is ordered, this alert will only fire if the patient has a documented sesame oil allergy.