Drug Allergy and Pharmacy Led Initiatives

Fakhsheena Anjum^*, Sana Ghayas & Farah Khalid

Dow College of Pharmacy, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan

Dr. Fakhsheena Anjum, Dow College of Pharmacy, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan.

Keywords: Drug Allergy; Allergy; Medication Use Process; Pharmacy Practice; Medication Errors

Abstract

Drug allergy can be caused by any medication which is unlike side effect or drug toxicity. It is most commonly unpredictable and lacks in homogeneity of type and severity from person to person. Due to drug allergy, considerable challenges may arise regarding the delivery of optimal treatment in an allergic individual; therefore, pharmacy-led initiatives can be unpretentiously successful in such situations. If drug allergies are properly documented and identified, then medication errors can be preventable in community pharmacy practice and limitations in the medication-use process can be improved. Health care professionals should also be educated about the weaknesses within existing healthcare practice which may help proposing some promising elucidations in medication-use process.

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