Allergic reactions to medicines derived from Pelargonium species

Drug Safety

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 677-680

  De Boer, Hugo J ^a   Hagemann, Ulrich ^b   Bate, Jenny ^c   Meyboom, Ronald H B ^c,d  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR DRUGS AND MEDICAL DEVICES   (Germany)

^c UPPSALA MONITORING CENTRE   (Sweden)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT EXTRACT; UMCKALOABO; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACNE; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; ASTHMA; BRONCHUS OBSTRUCTION; BULLOUS DERMATITIS; CHEILITIS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONJUNCTIVITIS; COOMBS TEST; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COUGHING; DERMATITIS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZZINESS; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG FEVER; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM; DRY SKIN; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPNEA; EDEMA; EPISTAXIS; ERYTHEMA; FACE EDEMA; FEMALE; FLUSHING; GERMANY; HEARTBURN; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MOUTH EDEMA; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NAUSEA; PALLOR; PAPULAR RASH; PAPULE; PARESTHESIA; PELARGONIUM; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; PHARYNGITIS; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; PUSTULE; RHINITIS; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN ALLERGY; STOMACH PAIN; SWEATING; SWELLING; TACHYCARDIA; TONGUE EDEMA; URTICARIA; VISUAL DISORDER; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PELARGONIUM; PLANT EXTRACTS;

EID: 34548100838     PISSN: 01145916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00002018-200730080-00004     Document Type: Article

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