Ceftazidime-induced Antibiomania: A Rare Case Study and Review of Literature | Chapter 5 | Research Highlights in Disease and Health Research Vol. 6

 The aim concerning this article is to climax the importance of understanding the psychiatric side effects of medicines early and formulating direct management options for fear that detrimental belongings on a patient's clinical condition. Antibiomania is a rare somewhat secondary madness caused by antibiotics. We present the representative occurrence of antibiomania in a peritoneal dialysis patient produced by ceftazidime, a cephalosporin antibiotic. Manic symptoms were seen in the patient mentioned attending a few days after offset the antibiotic and diminished over the course of a few weeks of antibiotic situation. In this instance, there is a close equating between the start of antibiotic situation and the emergence of crazy symptoms.  Antibiotics from various classes have existed implicated as the creative agents in a few case reports of antibiomania. Several theories have been projected regarding the underlying method of antibiomania.

Author(s) Details:

Sujith K. Palleti,
Nephrology, Edward Hines Jr. Veterans Administration Hospital, Hines, USA and Nephrology, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, USA.

Anuradha Wadhwa,
Nephrology, Edward Hines Jr. Veterans Administration Hospital, Hines, USA and Nephrology, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, USA.

Abdul H. Rasheed,
Nephrology, Edward Hines Jr. Veterans Administration Hospital, Hines, USA and Nephrology, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, USA.

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