Drug allergy: patient management tactics
How a medicinal allergic reaction develops
In the structure of allergic diseases, drug allergies occupy not the last place, which a cosmetologist should be able to recognize and treat. Let's consider their clinical manifestations, tactics of treatment and prevention.
Drug allergy is an increased specific immune reaction to drugs, which is accompanied by general or local clinical manifestations.
Drug allergy is caused by the production of antibodies or the appearance of T-lymphocytes specific to the drug or its metabolites, and occurs even when the drug is prescribed in low doses. Only reactions mediated by immune mechanisms are allergic.
Allergies to medicines are always preceded by a period of sensitization, when the first contact of the body's immune system and medicines takes place. Several days usually pass between the first use of the drug and the appearance of a medicinal allergy. A medicinal allergic reaction develops only upon repeated administration (contact) of drugs.
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