Serum Sickness
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Serum sickness is a type of delayed allergic response, appearing four to 10 days after exposure to some antibiotics or antiserum, the portion of serum that contains anti-bodies, such as gamma globulin, ...
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hypersensitive response that occurs after injection of a large amount of foreign protein. The condition is named for the serum taken from horses or other animals immunized against a particular disease, e.g.
Serum sickness is a hypersensitivity reaction similar to an allergy. Specifically, it is an immune system reaction to certain medications or antiserum, ...
Serum Sickness
A hypersensitivity reaction consisting of fever, rashes, joint pain and glomerulonephritis, resulting from localization of circulating, soluble, antigen-antibody complexes, which induce inflammatory reactions.
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Serum sickness. This rare condition usually begins 6 to 21 days after you take the offending medicine. Symptoms include fever, weakness and body aches, joint pain, and skin eruptions, such as hives or a rash.
Medicine fever.
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Urticaria with or without fever, polyarthralgias, polyarthritis, lymphadenopathy, proteinuria, edema, and abdominal pain within 7-10 days after parenteral administration of a biologic-based drug or substance
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A delayed allergic reaction to the injection of an antiserum caused by an antibody reaction to an antigen in the donor serum (syn: serum disease) [Wordnet]
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Other immune complex-mediated inflammation
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Rituximab's major side effect is serum sickness, commonly described as an "allergic reaction", which can be severe, especially on the first infusion.
Serum sickness and serum sickness-like reactions
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Complement-mediated angioedema/urticaria: o This angioedema involves immune complex-mediated necrotizing cutaneous venulitis manifested as serum sickness. o It is characterized by fever, angioedema, arthralgias, urticaria, and palpable purpura.
Serum sickness, a reaction to the medicines (antiserum) used to treat a bite or sting. Serum sickness may cause hives and flu-like symptoms in about 3 to 21 days after the use of antiserum.
A virus infection.
A less common type of allergic reaction is called serum sickness. This can occur days or even a week after starting a medication, even if you have never been exposed to the medication before.
This can lead to a condition called serum sickness, and typically occurs days or weeks after the sting.
There have been isolated reports of serum sickness-like syndromes occurring about a week after a sting.
Why: may suggest chicken pox, serum sickness, eczema herpeticum, exfoliative dermatitis, severe allergic contact dermatitis from poison ivy.
Itch, and if so is the itch mild, moderate or severe?
Most drug allergies cause minor skin rashes and hives. Serum sickness is a delayed type of drug allergy that occurs a week or more after exposure to a medication or vaccine.
Examples of this allergic reaction are; serum sickness, systemic lupus erythematous, immune-complex glomerulonephitis (a disorder of the kidney).
All of the therapies carry side effects. ATG may cause a fever and often leads to 'serum sickness'. During this phase there may be rashes and joint pains.
You may also have another reaction to an insect sting that is not an allergic reaction (such as a toxic reaction or serum sickness).
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HIV disease or AIDS; cat-scratch fever; juvenile rheumatoid arthritis; serum sickness; leukemia; Hodgkin's disease; non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; canker sores; drugs (such as phenytoin); typhoid vaccination; salivary duct stones.
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