Skin ulcers, itching, blisters, hives, rashes, warts on the nasal mucosa. These skin changes may be triggered because of the consumption of cocaine addiction. If a patient has chronic skin lesions and shows a strange and delusional behavior, should be an overall drug tests to confirm whether the use of this drug is the cause, as recommended by an article published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.
“However, they must also be completely excluded other triggers of these skin reactions, even when they are illegal substances during testing, since a positive drug test does not always indicate the source of injuries,” warn the authors of the paper, conducted in the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota (USA). (more…)
