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Stevens-Johnson syndrome

A drug reaction requiring emergency treatment, with blistering and peeling of the skin and of mucous membranes such as the mouth and eyes. The medicines regulator of the Philippines has drawn attention to this possibility with intravenous glutathione treatments.

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