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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. 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 ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. What's causing your red, itchy rash? Eczema pictures can help

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    Nummular eczema, also called discoid eczema, is a type of eczema rash that shows up in a distinctive round pattern. The rashes may be itchy, red and raised ovals, the AAD says , and there may be ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. Stevens–Johnson syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Stevens–Johnson syndrome (SJS) is a type of severe skin reaction. [1] Together with toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) and Stevens–Johnson/toxic epidermal necrolysis (SJS/TEN) overlap, they are considered febrile mucocutaneous drug reactions and probably part of the same spectrum of disease , with SJS being less severe.

  8. Acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis - Wikipedia

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    Similarly, a specific T cell receptor variant has been associated with the development of DRESS syndrome, SJS, SJS/TEN, and TEN but not AGEP. [2] [17] Variations in ADME, i.e. an individual's efficiency in absorbing, distributing, metabolizing, and excreting a drug) has been found to occur in cases of the DRESS syndrome, SJS, SJS/TEN, and TEN ...

  9. Dalbavancin - Wikipedia

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    It belongs to the same class as vancomycin, the most widely used and one of the treatments available to people infected with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). [7] Dalbavancin is a semisynthetic lipoglycopeptide that was designed to improve upon the natural glycopeptides vancomycin and teicoplanin. [8]