Publication:

Common drugs causing allergy in patients attending a tertiary care centre in South Kerala

Background Drugs play an important part in the wellbeing of human life. Adverse drug reactions are also a part of drug administration. Adverse drug reactions mainly manifest in the form of skin lesions such as urticaria or maculo-papular rash. Drug allergy is a common clinical problem and its assessment is important for appropriate management of the condition. Diagnosis of drug allergy relies on a careful history and in some instance’s allergy testing may be required.  Aim was to determine the common drugs causing allergy.

Methods After obtaining informed written consent, data was entered in a schedule and an intradermal test was done in the volar aspect of the patient’s forearm with the selected list of twenty-four drugs.

Results The maximum number of study subjects showed positive reactions were for ampicillin, paracetamol, diclofenac and ketorolac.

Conclusions The drugs which are commonly used by the medical practitioners were found to be more allergic to the study subjects.