Adverse drugs reactions (antibiotics)
Adverse drug reactions are very important in antibiotic therapy, and a full drug history is important before prescribing.
Reactions include:-
- penicillin - one in 2000 people have a type 1 reaction
- sulphonamides - skin (Stevens Johnson syndrome)
- tetracyclines - renal failure, stain teeth in children, superinfection - candida, gut
- aminoglycosides - ototoxicity and kidney
- clindomycin and lincomycin - pseudomembranous colitis
- chloramphenicol - aplastic anaemia
- metronidazole - peripheral neuropathy
Remember drug interactions with antibiotics.
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