Ampicillin rashes in glandular fever.

Secondary Rashes in Scarlet Fever

Secondary rashes during the convalescent stage ot scarlet fever are by no means of uncommon occurrence. They are not to be confounded with the true relapse in which the patient passes again through the stages of vomiting, sore-throat, strawberry tongue, rash, and desquamation. Such relapses are said to occur as frequently as once in every two hundred cases, are most common during the second or ...

Steroid therapy in glandular fever.

Glandular fever or infectious mononucleosis is a disease of undetermined aetiology which may present variously. The literature is replete with accounts of its complications. In spite of the usually benign course, there remains a small mortality rate and it is therefore not surprising that adrenal corticosteroid treatment has been used in the severest forms of the illness. Doran et al.3 describe...

Extreme neutropenia in glandular fever.

Extreme neutropenia has very rarely been recorded as a complication of glandular fever. Two non-fatal cases, with mild secondary infections, are now reported. Extreme neutropenia may in fact be less rare in this disease than it appears to be, but serious illness as a result is exceedingly unusual.

Glandular fever (infectious mononucleosis).

Glandular Fever: Infectious Mononucleosis