Itch and skin rash from chocolate during fluoxetine and sertraline treatment: Case report

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Cederberg, Jonas ^a   Knight, Stefan ^b   Svenson, Svante ^c   Melhus, Håkan ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c Fålhagens Primary Care Center   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BETAMETHASONE; CLEMASTINE; FLUOXETINE; SERTRALINE; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ADULT; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ARTICLE; CACAO; CASE REPORT; DEPRESSION; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; DRUG ERUPTION; EYELID EDEMA; FOOD ALLERGY; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MALE; NAUSEA; PRURITUS; RED WINE; SCALP; URTICARIA; VASOMOTOR RHINITIS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RASH;

CACAO; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EXANTHEMA; FLUOXETINE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRURITUS; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; SERTRALINE;

EID: 12944266750     PISSN: 1471244X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-4-36     Document Type: Article

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