The triad of fever, rash and joint pain is seen in a rare allergylike disease known as serum sickness.
Still, if the patient had some type of hypersensitivity reaction, an allergy or serum sickness, what was she reacting to?
This typifies the response to injection of foreign antigen sufficient to lead to the condition of serum sickness.
Later during the treatment, some patients develop serum sickness or immune complex glomerulonephritis.
He did use the serum in time, and it proved effective, but he came down with a severe case of serum sickness.
They can also cause more reactions resulting in typical symptoms of serum sickness.
Some of the drugs associated with serum sickness are:
Allergenic extracts, hormones and vaccines can also cause serum sickness.
Rituximab's major side effect is serum sickness, commonly described as an "allergic reaction", which can be severe, especially on the first infusion.
Over time, there is the risk of serum sickness, which is a delayed hypersensitivity response to the medication.