Open AccessNew allergy drug excipient allergy
Author(s) -
Shah Vipulkumar
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
clinical and translational allergy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.979
H-Index - 37
ISSN - 2045-7022
DOI - 10.1186/2045-7022-4-s3-p134
Subject(s) - medicine , tartrazine , excipient , drug , allergy , dermatology , drug allergy , patch test , pharmacology , immunology , pathology
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.