14 year old Amina Ibrahim who suffered severe burns after allegedly taking popular antibiotics, Septin last month has died.
It was reported that , On May 26, Amina had complained of cold and cough, so she visited a near by chemist with her younger brother. She met the chemist’s son who was on duty that day. The boy is about 19 year old.
The 19 year old boy prescribed an antibiotic, Septrin, to Amina, claiming that it would relieve her of her discomfort.
Amina took the drug and within an hour, her lips and tongue got swollen and her eyes became red.
When the pain became unbearble, Amina's mother took her back to the chemist and complained about the reaction to the drug.
He said Amina was developing symptoms of chicken pox and that she would need to be placed on injection and other drugs to fight the ailment, the chemist gave her a combination of drugs which included paracetamol, ciproxin, puriton, ciprotab and blood tonic to treat the chicken pox which he claimed Amina had.
Immediately she completed her injection doses, things got out of hand. Her face turned black as if she got burnt, health deteriorated.
She was later diagnosed with Stevens-Johnson syndrome, a “rare, serious disorder of skin and mucous membranes that is usually caused from reaction to a medication or an infection.
Amina died at the Mohammed Abdullahi Wase Specialist Hospital in Kano State.
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