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I'm not sure if it's an allergy or hopped-up side effects, but when I take Sudafed, I start itching and sweating, and I turn very pale, and I have a hard time talking...I also experience tachycardia and my blood pressure spikes...seems to me it's a hopped-up side effect, but I don't take Sudafed either way!
I ask patient "Do you have any allergies?"
Patient replies "No"
Later patient asks, "Don't you want to know if I'm allergic to anything?"
I reply, puzzled, " I thought you said you had no allergies."
Patient says, "I don't. But I'm allergic to 'insert drug name '."
Believe it or not, this actually happened more than once.
Once when a patient told me her allergy was 'hay fever', I replied with "Well, I'll be sure we don't bring you any hay."
I had a patient tell me once that she was allergic to plastic and couldn't drink from the water pitcher we provided. I gave her a styrofoam cup of iced water instead. When I came into the room awhile later to finish admitting her, she was drinking soda pop from a plastic cup. This lady was alert and oriented. Go figure.:chuckle
roadfollies
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One patient I had recently claimed to be allergic to epinephrine because it caused a fast heart rate.