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Fatal Reaction: The Horror of Stevens Johnson Syndrome. (Letters to the Editor).(Letter to the Editor)

From: Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients  |  Date: 1/1/2002

Editor:

Jean Farrell knew something was wrong. The Denver travel agent had left for work in the morning and noticed that her 11 month-old daughter, Julie, had a swollen eye. Julie, an epileptic, had been placed on phenobarbitol, a widely used anti-convulsant drug, about two weeks prior. Farrell asked her mother to watch Julie during the day. But when Farrell returned from work later that day, however, both of Julie's eyes had swollen completely shut. The concerned mother quickly ...

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