results: a total number of 117 patients were evaluated for adverse drug reactions, among them, 97 (82.9%) were considered to have immunological drug reactions. the most common symptoms of allergic drug reactions were morbilliform eruptions, serum sickness, dress (drug rash with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms), and toxic epidermal necrolysis. in 62 patients, anticonvulsant drugs had the prom...

the study aimed to assess the prevalence and associated risk factors of immediate-type hypersensitivity reactions (hrs) to drugs in workers. the data consisted of 1152 questionnaires obtained from adult men that consisted of questions on hrs induced by drugs. the prevalence of self-reported drug hrs was 3.6% for all reactions. hrs were most common to beta-lactam antibiotics (51.2%) followed by ...

macular or maculopapular skin reactions are frequent events in skin allergies as well as in viral infections. clinically, the differentiation may be difficult in the absence of a clear relationship with drug intake or in the failure to detect measles virus-specific antibodies. studies on drug-specific t cell lines and t cell clones isolated from skin-allergy patients have suggested that these c...

Background Because of its rarity, drug excipients allergy is often unsuspected by the doctors. Some times the active drug is blamed and discontinued unnecessarily when the real culprit is drug excipients. This was suspected when patients reported exacerbation of urticaria with anti histaminic which are actually used for treating urticaria. After suspecting drug excipient as the cause of allergy.