EVALUATION OF UNWANTED DRUG-RELATED SKIN REACTIONS IN CHILDREN HOSPITALIZED IN MOTAHARI HOSPITAL OF URMIA: A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY

Unwanted drug-related reactions have remained a challenge in modern health care due to the increasing complexity of treatments and the increasing population of the world. Due to the lack of a similar study in this area, this study was conducted to investigate the unwanted drug-related skin reactions in children hospitalized in Motahari Hospital of Urmia from 2012 to 2016.

In this retrospective descriptive study, the medical records of all children hospitalized in Motahari Hospital in Urmia with the diagnosis of unwanted drug-related skin complications from the beginning of 2012 to the end of 2016 were studied. All the information was entered into an organized checklist designed already for this purpose. Data were analyzed by SPSS 19.

Our study showed that 76 (58.5%) of the children were male and 54 (41.5%) were female. The results of this study showed that phenobarbital is the most common drug that causes skin complications (In 90 cases (69.2%)). Maculopapular rash was the most common skin complication in the studied patients (In 96 cases (73.8%)).

The results of our study showed that skin complications in children are rare but potentially dangerous and special attention should be paid to them and immediate medical measures should be taken for these patients.