Background: Latex allergy is a major occupational disease with prevalence nearly 5-17% among the health care workers. Objective: To determine the prevalence of latex glove allergy and its contributing factors among operation room staff. Patients and Methods: In this study, 512 operation room staff were evaluated for latex allergy, using a complete questionnaire. Those suspected to have latex al...

Sir Medication allergies are common and can result in significant morbidity and mortality, allergic drug reactions have an estimated mortality rate of 0.09 per 1,000 hospital admissions. 1 In Ireland medication allergies accounted for 2% of medication events reported, according to the Irish Medication Safety Network. 2 Therefore documentation of allergies on medication charts is commonplace in ...

Atropine is the drug of choice for treatment of organophosphate nerve agent and insecticide intoxication and has been used for this indication for several decades. Adverse reactions to atropine may occur, and are of two types: toxic and allergic. Toxic reaction, the most common form, results from the anti-muscarinic effects of the drug. Since it is most probably related to interpersonal variati...

Childhood constipation is ofton a long_term problem requiring treatment over months or years. There is no single treatment metod for constipation and many children do not respond and continue to have chronic problems. Treatment is consisted of: Disimpaction,Drug adminstration , Diet modilation, and behaverial therapy. It is necessary in all cases that not responding to conventional therapy, un ...

severe adverse drug reactions are an important cause of childhood morbidity and mortality. despite this, few reports in the literature describe it. this study was designed to evaluate the admitted pediatric patients due to adverse drug reactions. this retrospective study was conducted at pediatric ward of besat hospital. the records of hospitalized patients that admitted with diagnosis of adver...

Adverse drug reactions in children are an important public health problem. Children are at a higher risk of developing adverse drug reactions as they seldom express their own drug therapy experiences. Factors that have been implicated include polypharmacy especially with anti-infective and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs; also concomitant use of traditional medicines which is prevalent in...