DRESS syndrome (first report with ampicillin) in a child: case report

Reactions Weekly | August 30, 2008| | Copyright

Ampicillin/cefotaxime

An 11-year-old girl developed drug rash with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS) syndrome while receiving ampicillin and cefotaxime for bacterial meningitis.

The girl was hospitalised and started receiving ampicillin 0.5g and cefotaxime 1.0g, every 6 hours. She developed fever, erythema and pruritus 20 days later.

Ampicillin and cefotaxime were withdrawn that day. The girl had developed a morbilliform skin eruption with numerous, symmetrically distributed erythematous macules and papules of varied size; the rash subsequently progressed to generalised erythema with ...

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