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DR HENRY LEE RECOMMENDS CRYPTOMONADALES

Friday, March 28, 2008

LIST OF SOME AGENTS REPORTED TO PRODUCE HEMOLYSIS IN PATIENTS WITH G6PD DEFICIENCY




  • Antimalarials:primaquine,parmaquine,pentaquine,quinine,chloroquine
  • Analgesics:aspirin,acetanilid,phenacetin,antipyrine,aminopyrine
  • Sulphonamides:sulphanilamide,sulphamethoxpyridone,sulphapyridine,sulphapyrimidine & sulphathiazole.
  • Sulphones:sulfloxone,dapsone
  • Nitrofurans:furazolidone,nitrofurantoin,nitrofurazone
  • Dimercaprol
  • Methylene Blue
  • Phenylhydrazine
  • Vitamin K (large doses)
  • Quinidine
  • Chloramphenicol(only in caucasians)
  • Infections:respiratory viruses,infectious hepatitis,infectious mononucleosis,bacterial pneumonias,diabetic acidosis.
  • Potentially Haemolytic Food:Fava(broad) beans
  • Herbal Medicines:containing Coptis teeta,should be avoided during late pregnancy & post partum if the baby is being breast fed. Several cases of haemolytic jaundice(kernicterus) leading to brain damage have been reported. For more info, please visit http://alternativehealing.org/huang_lian.htm.
  • Mothballs(Naphthalene):Babies during their first 3 weeks must not use clothes exposed to napthalene mothballs. Absorption of naphthalene through the skin may precipitate haemolytic jaundice in G-6-PD deficient babies.

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