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Allergic & ImmunologicModerate
Drug Allergy
Allergy & Immunology · Allergic & Immunologic
Moderate
Severity
Uncommon — true immune-mediated drug allergies affect less than 10% of reported drug reactions
Prevalence
No
Contagious
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🔬Causes & Risk Factors
- 1Occurs when the immune system mistakenly identifies a medication or its breakdown products as a harmful foreign substance
- 2triggering the production of antibodies against it upon exposure. Certain medications
- 3including some antibiotics like penicillin
- 4NSAIDs
- 5and contrast dyes
- 6are more commonly associated with allergic reactions
- 7and a personal or family history of allergies increases susceptibility.
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