Rare Anaphylactic Reaction to Acamprosate in a Young Alcoholic

Alcoholism is a worldwide health issue that affects people from all walks of life. Effective alcohol abuse treatment programs, which combine cognitive behavioral therapy with medications, are necessary to provide the appropriate care that patients need. Treatment options include Naltrexone, Acampros...

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Autores principales: Patnaik, Asha, Buttar, Barjinder S, Ataallah, Basma, Kumar, Vikas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Psychiatry
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6925377/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31890411
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6210
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description Alcoholism is a worldwide health issue that affects people from all walks of life. Effective alcohol abuse treatment programs, which combine cognitive behavioral therapy with medications, are necessary to provide the appropriate care that patients need. Treatment options include Naltrexone, Acamprosate, or Disulfiram. Due to poor compliance, Disulfiram is used as a second line agent. These medications play an integral role in treating alcohol abuse. Healthcare providers must be aware of their side effect profiles. This includes a rare and fatal anaphylactic reaction to Acamprosate which is not well documented in the current literature.
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spelling pubmed-69253772019-12-30 Rare Anaphylactic Reaction to Acamprosate in a Young Alcoholic Patnaik, Asha Buttar, Barjinder S Ataallah, Basma Kumar, Vikas Cureus Psychiatry Alcoholism is a worldwide health issue that affects people from all walks of life. Effective alcohol abuse treatment programs, which combine cognitive behavioral therapy with medications, are necessary to provide the appropriate care that patients need. Treatment options include Naltrexone, Acamprosate, or Disulfiram. Due to poor compliance, Disulfiram is used as a second line agent. These medications play an integral role in treating alcohol abuse. Healthcare providers must be aware of their side effect profiles. This includes a rare and fatal anaphylactic reaction to Acamprosate which is not well documented in the current literature. Cureus 2019-11-20 /pmc/articles/PMC6925377/ /pubmed/31890411 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6210 Text en Copyright © 2019, Patnaik et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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