The girl bought medicine and took her own medicine for a cold, but the skin felt like a needle stick, and she couldn’t even speak…

The 17-year-old girl bought medicine and took her own medicine because of a cold

resulted in a rash all over the body

showed a scald-like change

touched the skin lightly

< p>She will feel pain like needles

The cause is related to the medicine she is taking

< p>Recently, a 17-year-old girl, Xiaomei (pseudonym), accompanied by her parents, went to the Department of Dermatology and Venereal Diseases of Guangxi Nationalities Hospital for medical treatment.

The patient’s parents told the attending physician of the department that a few days ago, Xiaomei went to buy cold granules, antiviral oral liquid, cephalosporin antibiotics and other medicines because of a cold, and took them for 5 consecutive days.

From the 3rd day, Xiaomei’s skin began to develop some small red spots, and then the symptoms gradually increased. On day 5, the small red spots turned into larger erythema, densely packed, and blistered. Xiaomei’s lips were extremely painful, as if she had been scalded, and the skin on her body hurt like a needle stick. At the same time, Xiaomei couldn’t even speak clearly.

Based on the patient’s medical history and clinical manifestations, the attending physician believed that Xiaomei’s disease was a severe drug eruption, and the cause was related to the cephalosporin antibiotics she was taking.

The attending physician said that severe drug eruption is one of the serious diseases of the dermatology department. Clinically, the incubation period of drug eruption is generally 4 to 20 days. Drug eruptions can be mild or severe, most people have mild drug eruptions, and a few are severe drug eruptions. Severe drug eruption is more dangerous and can be divided into severe erythema multiforme, epidermolysis bullosa, and exfoliative dermatitis.

Guangxi Dermatology Hospital chief physician Zhou Meng reminded that drug eruption is a drug-induced disease, and prevention is particularly important. If parents or themselves have a history of drug allergies, the patient should keep in mind and inform the doctor in time every time they see a doctor. Usually avoid the abuse of drugs, try to reduce the variety of drugs. If unexplained itching, erythema, fever and other symptoms suddenly appear during the medication, all suspicious drugs should be stopped immediately and go to a regular hospital for medical treatment in time.

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What is drug eruption

Drug eruption is also known as drug-induced dermatitis in clinical practice. skin and mucous membrane inflammation.

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Clinical drugs that are prone to drug eruption mainly include the following categories:

1. Antibiotics, penicillin is the first, followed by sulfonamide and furazolidone , streptomycin, tetracycline, etc.

2. Antipyretic and analgesic drugs, such as aspirin, aminopyrine, acetaminophen, etc., these drugs are often made into compound preparations with other drugs, which should be paid attention to.

3. Sedative hypnotics and antiepileptic drugs, such as phenytoin, carbamazepine, etc.

4. Xenogeneic serum products and vaccines, such as tetanus antitoxin, rabies vaccine, etc.

5. Anti-gout drugs and certain Chinese herbal medicines.

New Evening News Comprehensive Nanguo Morning Post, Guangzhou Daily

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