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What Causes Itchy Palms And Fingers While On Pravastatin?
my fingers & palms seem to itch lately. The only thing different is that I ve started taking Pravastatin. I am on the first prescription. I wanted to go off it for a couple days & then re-start it to make sure that s what the problem is.Is that OK, and how many days should I go off from it before I re-start?
Mon, 10 Sep 2018
Hi,
It is the symptom of hypersensitivity and it can be due the medicine that you are taking, medicine can be stopped just to confirm the hypersensitivity reaction due to drug if the symptom eliminates then it is the drug responsible for itching, it can be auto-immune disorder, whatever may be the reason antihistamine can be tried.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
It is the symptom of hypersensitivity and it can be due the medicine that you are taking, medicine can be stopped just to confirm the hypersensitivity reaction due to drug if the symptom eliminates then it is the drug responsible for itching, it can be auto-immune disorder, whatever may be the reason antihistamine can be tried.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
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