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Journal of Palliative Care & Medicine | ISSN: 2165-7386 | Volume 8
August 27-28, 2018 | Boston, USA
4th International Conference on
Palliative Care, Medicine and Hospice Nursing
Diphenhydramine in the treatment of Acute Dystonia
Yi-Jiun LIU, Yi-Pei LIU and Yi Shuan LIU
Taipei City Hospital, Taiwan
Objective: Diphenhydramine is a common drug and using for allergy syndrome. Diphenhydramine has some common side
effect that is an association with a muscle disorder. Discuss that is it well to use diphenhydramine for Patient with acute
dystonia.
Methods: In order to review the English lectures about the relationship between diphenhydramine and treatment of
acute dystonia, PubMed, EBSCOhost, and the Web of Knowledge databases were searched using the following keywords "
Diphenhydramine ", " treatment of Acute Dystonia", " acute dystonia" and "muscle disorder".
Results: Some case reports have shown that diphenhydramine was effective in dystonia and one case report has shown that
patient with acute dystonia can give intravenous diphenhydramine to relieve the syndrome. Diphenhydramine has effectiveness
to patients with dystonia that was showed in some study reports
Conclusion: According to the result, we believe that diphenhydramine will be useful to patients with acute dystonia. Because
some psychoactive drugs and mental disorder will induce patient to show the acute dystonia and diphenhydramine could be
a good choice for that patient.
Biography
Yi-Jiun LIU is a pharmacist in the hospital from many years and likes to know the new medical knowledge.
Yi-Jiun LIU et al., J Palliat Care Med 2018, Volume 8
DOI: 10.4172/2165-7386-C3-021