Çocuklarda Serum Hastalığı Benzeri Reaksiyonlar

Abstract

Serum sickness and serum sickness-like reactions are the type III hypersensitivity reactions that occur in the presence of culprit agents which can be an exogenous protein, drug, bacteria, virus. Clinical symptoms usually begin in 6-21 days after exposure to antigenic stimulation. Typical clinical findings are characterised as fever (10-20%), erythematous rash (95%), polyarthritis and / or polyarthralgia (10-50%), and lymphadenopathy (10-20%). There are no specific laboratory findings and diagnostic criteria for serum sickness-like reaction. Laboratory findings usually include leukocytosis, mildly increased erythrocyte sedimentation rate, and rarely proteinuria and hematuria. Even though there are no diagnostic criteria for serum sicknesslike reaction, it can be diagnosed with the presence of fever, rash, arthritis-arthralgia, lymphadenopathy, myalgia which occurs in 1-2 weeks after exposure to an agent that can trigger the disease. Recommended or achieved a consensus for the treatment of the serum sickness-like reaction doesn't occur and the information about this subject in the literature is limited by the authors' case reports who share their experiences.