{"id":8548,"date":"2013-01-14T13:36:38","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T13:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=8548"},"modified":"2013-01-14T13:36:38","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T13:36:38","slug":"am-i-experiencing-a-hypersensitivity-reaction-to-abacavir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/8548","title":{"rendered":"Am I experiencing a hypersensitivity reaction to Abacavir?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your email.<\/p>\n<p>Hypersensitivity reaction to abacavir occurs during the first six weeks of therapy in over 90% of cases. But it can rarely occur much later without any previous symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>Itchy skin alone, however, is not a sign of a hypersensitivity reaction (HSR). The following are symptoms of HSR.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Temperature<\/li>\n<li>Rash \u2013 normally raised and differing in colour from surrounding skin<\/li>\n<li>Diarrhoea and abdominal pain<\/li>\n<li>Tiredness and feeling generally unwell<\/li>\n<li>Nausea and vomiting<\/li>\n<li>Headache<\/li>\n<li>Flu-like aches and pains including muscle pain<\/li>\n<li>Cough and shortness of breath<\/li>\n<li>Sore throat<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If these symptoms get progressively worse each day then this is an indication that it could be HSR.<\/p>\n<p>If your only symptom is itchy skin then your doctor is likely to be right. If this does get worse, or you experience any other symptoms let your doctor know.<\/p>\n<p>Our side effects guide has more information about <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/side\/abacavir-hypersensitivity-reaction\">Abacavir hypersensitivity reactions.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the drugs I take for my HIV contains Abacavir. I have already had the HLAB5701 hypersensitivity test and have been on meds for 12 weeks now.  <\/p>\n<p>Over the last couple of days, I have had itchy skin and no rash.  The doctor says I have dry skin.   Could I still be at risk of developing hypersensitivity after 12 weeks?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-side-effects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}