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Published on: December 1, 2017
Fixed drug eruption due to influenza vaccine
N Al-Mutairi1, A Al-Fouzan, Osama Nour-Eldin
1Dermatology Department, Farwaniya Hospital, Kuwait. nalmut@usa.net
Abstract:
Two females, one 28 years old and the other 32 years old, developed dusky red macules with pain and a burning sensation within 24 hours of receiving influenza vaccine. One patient had blisters within the lesion. A clinical diagnosis of fixed drug eruption (FDE) due to influenza vaccine was made. Histopathology was consistent with the diagnosis of FDE. The lesions subsided within 2 weeks of topical corticosteroid treatment. The diagnosis was confirmed by topical provocation test with influenza vaccine. A Medline search revealed these cases to be the second report of this kind of reaction due to influenza vaccine.
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