More than 570 persons reported side effects to medicines or after being immunized to the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency in the first half of this year. Most often, the side effects were caused by anti-tuberculosis drugs and also by antibiotics, contrast agents, analgesics, anesthetics and antihypertensive drugs, IPN reports.

In a response to an inquiry made by IPN Agency, the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency said the side effects usually included eruptions and pruritus, sickness, vomiting, diarrhea, headache and vertigo, coughing and dyspnea. The side effects were primarily reported by doctors and less by pharmaceutical companies and patients.

The most serious side effects were reported in patients with hypersensibility of the first type: Quinckue edema or swelling of the face or extremities and anaphylactic shock that was rarer. These side effects are individual and related to the allergic predisposition.

The Medicines and Medical Devices Agency said to counteract the cases of side effects, the medication committee can impose changes in the information about the drug and can withdraw the noncompliant series.

Side effects can be reported through the Communication File available on the Agency’s website that should be later sent to farmacovigilenta@amed.md or online on E-Reporting.