J. Vijayashree, Anand Acharya
An adverse drug reaction can be defined as “an appreciably harmful or unpleasant reaction, resulting from an intervention related to the use of a medicinal product, which predicts hazard from future administration and warrants prevention or specific treatment, or alteration of the dosage regimen, or withdrawal of the product”. This is a prospective study conducted at two tertiary centers in coastal Andhra Pradesh during April 2013 to June 2015. Out of 164 cases of coetaneous ADR, 63% were male and 36.58%were female, Maculo popular rashes were most common cutaneous drug reaction. Out of all drugs antimicrobial agent were the most common drugs which is responsible for cutaneous ADR.
