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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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    One of the side effects is red man syndrome, an idiosyncratic reaction to bolus caused by histamine release. Some other side-effects of vancomycin are nephrotoxicity including kidney failure and interstitial nephritis, blood disorders including neutropenia, and deafness, which is reversible once therapy has stopped. Over 90% of the dose is ...

  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. 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 ...

  6. Jarisch–Herxheimer reaction - Wikipedia

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    A Jarisch–Herxheimer reaction is a sudden and typically transient reaction that may occur within 24 hours of being administered antibiotics for an infection by a spirochete, including syphilis, leptospirosis, Lyme disease, and relapsing fever. [1]

  7. List of syndromes - Wikipedia

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    Raynaud syndrome; Red ear syndrome; Red man syndrome (Drug eruption) Refeeding syndrome; Reactive arthritis; Renal dysplasia-limb defects syndrome; Renfield syndrome; Renpenning's syndrome; Restless legs syndrome; Restrictive dermopathy; Retinoic acid syndrome; Retirement syndrome; Rett syndrome; Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome ...

  8. MRGPRX2 - Wikipedia

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    Medications identified to cause MRGPRX2 activation including neuromuscular blocking agents (NMBA) (except for succinylcholine), antibiotics like DNA gyrase inhibitor fluoroquinolones or cell wall synthesis inhibitor vancomycin (which caused Red Man syndrome), icatibant, leuprolide, and morphine. [7]

  9. Drug of last resort - Wikipedia

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    There are also strains of enterococci that have developed resistance to vancomycin referred to as vancomycin resistant enterococcus (VRE). Agents classified as fourth-line (or greater) treatments or experimental therapies could be considered by default to be drugs of last resort due to their low placement in the treatment hierarchy.