Experiment 352409
Details
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Administration route | ORAL |
| Organism | Carica papaya (CARICACEAE) |
| Citation | ILLIEV,D: ELSNER,P:. (1997). GENERALIZED DRUG REACTION DUE TO PAPAYA JUICE IN THROAT LOZENGES.. 194(4) |
| Amount utilized | |
| Compound isolated | |
| Disease | A CASE REPORT OF A 55 YEAR-OLD WOMAN WITHOUT A HISTORY OF ATOPIC DISEASE OR DRUG ALLERGY WHO DEVELOPED A MACULOPAPULAR SYMMETRIC EXANTHEMATOUS RASH ABOUT 2 DAYS AFTER TAKING THROAT LOZENGES CONTAINING PAPAYA JUICE. PATCH TESTS GAVE NEGATIVE REACTIONS TO THE EUROPEAN STANDARD SERIES BUT WERE POSITIVE FOR PAPAYA JUICE. A SOLUTION OF 1% PAPAIN IN WATER SHOWED A WEAK AND PROBABLY IRRITANT REACTION, WHILE A 0.1% SOLUTION WAS NEGATIVE. THIS IS THE FIRST CASE REPORT OF SYSTEMIC CONTACT DERMATITIS TO PAPAYA WITHOUT PAPAIN HYPERSENSITIVITY. |
| Dose amount | 1.0% |
| Number | 1 |
| Qualitative result | ACTIVE |
| Animal | HUMAN ADULT |
| Dose expression | CONC USED |
| Extract | JUICE |
| Gender | FEMALE |