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What Causes Severe Whole Body Itching After Taking Amlodipine And Metoprolol?
Question: I have been taking 5mg amlodipine 1x per day and 25mg metoprolol 2 x per day since oct. no issues until 3 days ago when I started itching all over, like crazy. I have scratched until my legs and arms are bleeding.
Brief Answer:
Likely to be due to an allergic reaction.
Detailed Answer:
Thanks for asking on HealthcareMagic.
I have gone carefully through your query and understand your concerns. I do not think that your itchiness has anything to do with the medicines that you are taking. It is possible that you have an allergic reaction. Taking some antiallergic like cetirizine or benadryl (or possibly better ones like fexofenadine or loratidine which are prescription medicines) should help. You also should apply some emollient like calamine lotion or some moisturizer like aloe vera lotion.
It might take a couple of days to recover and so you need to be patient.
Let me know if I could help further.
Regards
Likely to be due to an allergic reaction.
Detailed Answer:
Thanks for asking on HealthcareMagic.
I have gone carefully through your query and understand your concerns. I do not think that your itchiness has anything to do with the medicines that you are taking. It is possible that you have an allergic reaction. Taking some antiallergic like cetirizine or benadryl (or possibly better ones like fexofenadine or loratidine which are prescription medicines) should help. You also should apply some emollient like calamine lotion or some moisturizer like aloe vera lotion.
It might take a couple of days to recover and so you need to be patient.
Let me know if I could help further.
Regards
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