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Photosensitivity due to alprazolam with positive oral photochallenge test after 17 days administration
Y Watanabe1, A Kawada, Y Ohnishi
1Department of Dermatology, National Defense Medical College, Saitama, Japan.
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
|May 13, 1999
Abstract:
We describe a 65-year-old male patient with photosensitivity due to alprazolam. A photopatch test was negative. An oral photochallenge test after taking alprazolam for 17 days with UVA irradiation was positive. Alprazolam, a lipid-soluble drug, may require long duration of administration to cause photosensitivity.