r/emergencymedicine • u/Asleep-Palpitation43 Nurse Practiciner • Feb 02 '25

Advice Allergy Olympics

Is it wrong that if I see a patient has more than 10 allergies I IMMEDIATELY assume she's (bc it's always a she) a psych case?

In 24 years I've never been wrong.

You'll never read this in a textbook but add it to your practice today and thank me later👍

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u/hamburgler18 Feb 02 '25

I've posted this many times, but I love this article because I always anecdotally KNEW there had to be at least some correlation between pseudoseizures and allergies......

Number of patient-reported allergies helps distinguish epilepsy from psychogenic nonepileptic seizures

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1525505015006770

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u/Asleep-Palpitation43 Nurse Practiciner Feb 03 '25

Wow this is very cool. Ty for sharing.