Re: Scans and dyes
From: Karla N (ifirgit@yahoo.com)
Fri May 10 02:47:35 2002
Cathy,
I have that same type of reaction that you have. But, not every time. I also don't react to betadine when it is used by itself. We believe that it is something in the adhesive. I get all kinds of reactions to the different tapes...some really bad ones...but not all the time. Maybe its a combination of the ingredients. I do know that I am not allergic to the dye.
My wierdest reaction goes right along with the vagasil. There is an antibiotic called Vancomycin. This is the only drug that I have left to use. One of the first times they used this drug the nurse forgot to adjust the rate that it went through my IV. Within no time I was burning in all of the moist tissue areas....my eyes, my mouth and yes, the same spot you would put the vagasil. It was awful! I believe they term it Redman's syndrome or something like that. I am not allergic to the drug. They just have to put it in at a slower rate.
I am allergic to penicillin, sulfa, tetracycline, cipro and levaquin....all antibiotics that are necessary to treat a person with kidney problems. Someone's watching over me eh? Anyway, the only thing that ever happens with the latter four is a rash. I took penicillin for years and years...then one day when I was in the hospital and getting iv penicillin for a kidney infection my face swelled and breathing became very difficult. I was lucky that I was where I was when that happened. I just consider it amazing that I took that drug for so many years before I developed an allergy.
Karla
"cathy:-" <anonymous@medispecialty.com> wrote: I was gabbing with some friends and the subject of weird allergies came
up. Well I am allergic to SOMETHING but I'm not exactly sure what. When
I had my c-section they put the giant adhesive over the incision and
then they obviously swabbed the whole abdomen down with something. I
had this fiery red reaction all around the tape, but skin was just fine
underneath. When I had baby #2 I had the same reaction on the back of
my hand where they inserted the IV, and on my back where they inserted
the epidural. Again a big patch, obviously from being swabbed. But the
weird thing was that with the first birth I had an epidural and an IV
too (actually 2 IV's -- the hep lock clotted after 12 hours because they
didn't rinse it) and they must have swabbed me with something different
because I didn't break out from that.
But anyway, the thing that I learned that I thought I should pass along
was that several friends theorized that I am allergic to betadyne. And
one knew of a really important thing about this, which is that at least
one of the dyes that they use for these various contrast tests if you
are allergic to betadyne you will be allergic to the dye, too. Her
friend had an IVP (which I think is a scan of the kidneys?) and almost
died from the allergic reaction.
This is a really easy thing to test for at home. You can buy this stuff
at the drug store, and rub some of it on some spot on your skin, and it
you get a rash then make sure that this allergy is noted on your chart.
(I did not have the weirdest allergy of the group, though -- that would
be the allergy to benedryl! Or the nastiest, which has got to be to
woman allergic to vagisil -- talk about out of the frying pan and into
the fire! YOWSERS! For those of you who are not in the US, vagisil is a
creme designed to relieve "feminine itching" and imagine putting
something down there that you are allergic to... 8-0 )
--
cathy :-)
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