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  2. Vancomycin - Wikipedia

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    Vancomycin is recommended to be administered in a dilute solution slowly, over at least 60 min (maximum rate of 10 mg/min for doses >500 mg) [21] due to the high incidence of pain and thrombophlebitis and to avoid an infusion reaction known as vancomycin flushing reaction. This phenomenon has been often clinically referred to as "red man syndrome".

  3. Glycopeptide antibiotic - Wikipedia

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    Vancomycin is usually given intravenously, as an infusion, and can cause tissue necrosis and phlebitis at the injection site if given too rapidly. Pain at the site of injection is indeed a common adverse event. One of the side effects is red man syndrome, an idiosyncratic reaction to bolus

  4. Red man syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Red man syndrome may refer to: Red man syndrome (Drug eruption) Erythroderma This page was last edited on 29 December 2019, at 21:53 (UTC). Text is available under ...

  5. 'Why Was I Constantly Bloated? Doctors Discovered The ... - AOL

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    Typically, if the condition is in your body long enough, it can spread to your bones, which often causes bone pain or bone fractures. (I never broke a bone in my life). (I never broke a bone in my ...

  6. Most tick bites go unnoticed. Here's are photos and expert ...

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    There are many types of ticks in the U.S., and many of them can spread multiple pathogens that cause illness in humans. Here are some of the tick species that experts worry most about from a ...

  7. Drug rash with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms - Wikipedia

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    The symptoms of DRESS syndrome usually begin 2 to 6 weeks but uncommonly up to 8–16 weeks after exposure to an offending drug. Symptoms generally include fever, an often itchy rash which may be morbilliform or consist mainly of macules or plaques, facial edema (i.e. swelling, which is a hallmark of the disease), enlarged and sometimes painful lymph nodes, and other symptoms due to ...

  8. List of human disease case fatality rates - Wikipedia

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    Human infectious diseases may be characterized by their case fatality rate (CFR), the proportion of people diagnosed with a disease who die from it (cf. mortality rate).It should not be confused with the infection fatality rate (IFR), the estimated proportion of people infected by a disease-causing agent, including asymptomatic and undiagnosed infections, who die from the disease.

  9. Drug of last resort - Wikipedia

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    Unacceptably high risk of irreversible, fatal aplastic anemia and gray baby syndrome causes intravenous chloramphenicol to be a drug of last resort. [5] Colistin — used against certain life-threatening infections, such as those caused by Pseudomonas; carries risk of kidney and nerve damage.