{"id":125,"date":"2017-01-16T11:25:40","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T11:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcns.scot.nhs.uk\/cyans\/?page_id=125"},"modified":"2024-06-25T13:16:51","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T12:16:51","slug":"drug-and-latex-allergy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/cyans\/families\/types-of-allergies\/drug-and-latex-allergy\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug and Latex Allergy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Drug Allergy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>There are various ways in which you can react to a drug you have taken or been given:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Sometimes<strong>&nbsp;the reaction is actually to do with the<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>intended effect of the medicine<\/strong>&nbsp;(e.g. feeling dizzy with blood pressure medicines).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sometimes<strong>&nbsp;it is an<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>unintended but inevitable effect of the medicine<\/strong>&nbsp;(e.g. diarrhoea with antibiotics).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sometimes<strong>&nbsp;symptoms are blamed on the medicine that are probably due to the underlying condition or disease that the medicine was given for<\/strong>&nbsp;(e.g. a rash due to a virus infection).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Other reactions are allergic<\/strong>, in the sense described above, with rash, swelling and itching (e.g. penicillin).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Other reactions are not truly allergic&nbsp;<\/strong>but still make it unwise or unsafe to continue the medicine or take it again in the future.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><\/strong>Trying to work out what exactly is going on with drug reactions can be tricky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Latex Allergy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Latex comes from natural rubber, and is used in a variety of products incl rubber gloves, rubber balls, shower mats, hot water bottles, carpet backing, balloons.\u00a0Some people have instant reactions to latex, others have delayed reactions (usually dermatitis).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"nhsuk-card__description\">Drug Allergy There are various ways in which you can react to a drug you have taken or been given: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":6651,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-125","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/cyans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/cyans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/cyans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/cyans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/cyans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/cyans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6363,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/cyans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/125\/revisions\/6363"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/cyans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/cyans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}