Drug Allergy
Introduction 8 food-types cause about 90% of food allergy reactions. Milk (mostly in children) Eggs Peanuts Tree nuts (e.g. walnuts, almonds, pine nuts, brazil nuts and pecans) Soy Wheat (and other grains with gluten, including barley, rye and oats) Fish (mostly in adults) Shellfish (mostly in adults) Case Scenario "Do you have any drug allergies?" Often, when dispensing medications to patients (especially antibiotics or NSAIDs) or clerking CP1 form , we ask patients this question. The onset of hives within a few hours of taking a new medication is easily recognized as possible drug hypersensitivity. However, many clinical presentations of drug hypersensitivity are more complex or take place in the setting of illness and/or polypharmacotherapy. For example, The patient in intensive care who develops a rash while receiving multiple medications The ambulatory with complex chronic diseases who develops a new and unexplained symptom while taking many medications. The main questio...