Though the medicine was relatively safe, allergic reactions such as skin rashes, fever, nausea, vomiting, and even mental confusion were common.
DRESS (drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms) is a drug-induced life-threating hypersensivity syndrome that presents with skin rash, fever, eosinophilia and multiple organ involvement (especially kidney and liver injury).
This has resulted in skin diseases, fever and other water-borne illnesses.
Common AEs were skin toxicities, fever and chills, asthenia, transient transaminase elevations and nausea.
Adverse reactions include skin rash, fever, gastrointestinal symptoms, and abnormal liver function tests.
A 72-year-old female was referred to our institute due to abdominal pain with skin rush, fever and diarrhea.
Eight months later, the patient was hospitalized again for severe progression of sacroiliitis (confirmed by computed tomography scan imaging) associated with fistulization to the skin and fever.
SMX hypersensitivity was diagnosed by presence of at least two indicator adverse drug reactions, including skin rash, fever, pruritus, etc., that disappear after drug discontinuation [ 44].
However diarrhea, rash, dry skin, neutropenic fever, pruritus, and mucosal inflammation appeared to be more common in patients assigned to pertuzumab [ 6].
In Ethiopia the plant is used for wound dressing, and for treatment of skin diseases, fever, sore throat, rhinitis, sinusitis, and influenza [ 18] and also for prophylaxis against malaria, bacteria and helminthes [ 19].
