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THE MANAGEMENT OF HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTIONS TO ANTITUBERCULOSIS DRUGS
Author(s) -
Thompson John E.
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1969.tb107598.x
Subject(s) - medicine , hypersensitivity reaction , disease , tuberculosis , adverse effect , delayed hypersensitivity , drug reaction , drug , chemotherapy , dermatology , paradoxical reaction , immunology , pharmacology , pathology , antigen
Twenty out of 22 tuberculous patients with antituberculosis drug hypersensitivity were successfully desensitized by corticosteroids without interruption of chemotherapy. No adverse effects on the response to their disease was noted in patients with tuberculosis, nor did deterioration in atypical disease occur. It is stressed that rapid suppression of such allergic reactions depends on the promptness with which steroids are administered.