esomeprazole: a safe alternative to lansoprazole allergy?

Esomeprazole: a safe alternative to lansoprazole allergy?

Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are widely prescribed drugs in daily practice. Allergic reactions, even small number of anaphylactic reactions to PPIs have been reported. Omeprazole, lansoprazole, pantoprazole, rapeprazol and esomeprazole are classified in the same group. Despite the similarity of biochemical structures among these drugs, presence of cross-reactivity between PPIs is controversial...

A Statically Safe Alternative to Virtual Types

Parametric types and virtual types have recently been proposed as extensions to Java to support genericity. In this paper we investigate the strengths and weaknesses of each. We suggest a variant of virtual types which has similar expressiveness, but supports safe static type checking. This results in a language in which both parametric types and virtual types are well-integrated, and which is ...

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Approach to Penicillin Allergy – A Survey

Individual approaches to the diagnosis and management of penicillin allergy are practiced    by clinicians.   This cross-sectional survey of physicians was aimed at exploring their ways of dealing with diagnosis and management of penicillin G allergy.   Of the 235 respondents, 63% believed patients’ self-reported history of penicillin allergy and avoided using penic...

Deflazacort: a possible alternative in corticosteroid allergy.

improvement in nasal symptoms (congestion and hydrorrhea, and, to a lesser extent, hyposmia); 2 months later she had also achieved better asthma control (no further need for rescue bronchodilator use and no asthma symptoms, leading to the withdrawal of inhaled corticosteroids and long-acting ß 2 agonists, and a signifi cant improvement of FEV 1 up to 90% of predicted). After 16 weeks of treatme...

Hematuria due to Cow Milk Allergy: a case report

Background: Cow milk allergy is one of the most common food allergies in young children causing a wide range of clinical syndromes due to immunologic responses to cow milk proteins. In this report we introduce an infant with dietary protein proctitis due to a cow’s milk referred with hematuria and bloody stool. Case Presentation: Our case was a 10- month old m...