Wednesday, July 23, 2014

New Development

So in the saga of my never ending sickness, we've reached a new chapter that was somewhat unexpected. I'm on a antibiotic call clindamyacin to help clear up my infection. It's doing a great job of that, don't get me wrong. Over the past few days though I've started to break out in itchy red welts which are just miserable.Below is a picture of the break out on my leg, it may look pretty bad but to be honest other than  being itchy it's no big deal.


This is what they call drug rash, its an allergic reaction to a medication, one of its components, or to taking to many medications at once. Since I had been on multiple courses of drugs over the last two weeks, the doctor wasn't surprised that I broke out in the rash. He's recommending trying to finish out my antibiotics course and control the rash with antihistimine which works pretty well for the most part. If this happens to you, GO TO YOUR DOCTOR! This is considered a mild reaction but there's always a chance that you could develop a more severe reaction over time. Keep this in mind and stay healthy!


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