Table 6. Clinical details and characteristics of inpatients who experienced adverse drug reactions (ADR) and the suspected medicines.

Adverse drug reactions	Admission diagnosis	Medicine(s) administered	Suspected medicine(s)	Age	Sex	Severity	Duration of admission
Anaphylactic shock	Retinoblastoma	Vincristine, etoposide, allopurinol	Etoposide	3.5 years	Male	Severe	8 weeks
Anaphylactic shock	Septicemia	Ceftriaxone, gentamicin, artemether/lumefantrine	Ceftriaxone	8.5 years	Female	Severe	3 weeks
Anemia	Recurrent generalized seizure	Carbamazepine, artemether/lumefantrine	Carbamazepine	4 years	Male	Severe	4 weeks
Angioneurotic edema	Lobar pneumonia	Amodiaquine, cefuroxime, gentamicin	Amodiaquine	10 years	Female	Severe	4 weeks
Tachycardia	Acute severe asthma	Salbutamol, prednisolone, erythromycin	Salbutamol	10.5 years	Male	Moderate	1 week
Constipation	Painful crises in a sickle cell anemic patient	Tramadol, gentamicin, cefuroxime, artemether/lumefantrine	Tramadol	6 years	Female	Moderate	2 weeks
Constipation	Amoebiasis	Metronidazole, chloroquine, amoxicillin	Metronidazole, amoxicillin	8 years	Male	Moderate	2 weeks
Constipation	Osteomyelitis	Pentazocine, ibuprofen, vancomycin, ciprofloxacin	Pentazocine	6 years	Female*	Moderate	6 weeks
Sedation	Osteomyelitis	Pentazocine, ibuprofen, vancomycin, ciprofloxacin	Pentazocine	6 years	Female*	Moderate	6 weeks
Diarrhea	Presumed sepsis	Amoxicillin/clavulanic acid, gentamicin, paracetamol	Amoxicillin/clavulanic acid	3 years	Female	Moderate	2 weeks
Dystonia	Malaria	Chloroquine, promethazine, paracetamol	Promethazine	12 years	Male	Moderate	1 week
Erythema multiforme	Cerebral abscess	Cefotaxime, Ampicillin, phenobarbitone	Ampicillin, phenobarbitone	0.5 years	Male	Severe	6 months
Erythema multiforme	Presumed sepsis	Ciprofloxacin, Cefixime	Cefixime	9 years	Male*	Severe	4 weeks
Seizure	Presumed sepsis	Ciprofloxacin, Cefixime	Cefixime	9 years	Male*	Severe	4 weeks
Electrolyte disturbances	Nephrotic syndrome	Frusemide, potassium supplement, prednisolone, ciprofloxacin	Frusemide, prednisolone	11 years	Male	Moderate	4 weeks
Electrolyte disturbances	Congestive cardiac failure	Frusemide, potassium supplement (under dosage), crystalline penicillin	Frusemide	10 years	Male*	Moderate	2 weeks
Ileus	Congestive cardiac failure	Frusemide, potassium supplement (under dosage), crystalline penicillin	Frusemide	10 years	Male*	Moderate	2 weeks
Hemolysis	Malaria	Co-trimoxazole artemether/lumefantrine, paracetamol	Co-trimoxazole	10 years	Male	Severe	4 weeks
Transient loss of vision	Malaria	Quinine, paracetamol	Quinine	6 years	Male	Moderate	4 weeks
Macular and morbiliform rash	Presumed sepsis	Cefotaxime, gentamicin	Cefotaxime	5 days	Male	Moderate	3 weeks
Pustular rash	Sepsis	Vancomycin, gentamicin	Vancomycin	3 days	Female	Moderate	2 weeks
Pustular rash	Sepsis	Vancomycin, gentamicin	Vancomycin	2 days	Female	Moderate	2 weeks
Pustular rash	Sepsis	Vancomycin, gentamicin	Vancomycin	2 days	Female	Moderate	4 weeks
Pustular rash	Sepsis	Vancomycin, gentamicin	Vancomycin	4 days	Male	Moderate	4 weeks
Red man syndrome	Osteomyelitis	Vancomycin, chloramphenicol	Vancomycin	3 years	Male	Severe	6 weeks
Red man syndrome	Osteomyelitis	Vancomycin, chloramphenicol	Vancomycin	6 years	Female	Severe	6 weeks

^*Patients manifesting two types of adverse drug reactions to a single medicine (pentazocine, cefixime or frusemide).