Why fluoxetine?
In addition, after cured myelotoxic agranulocytosis, the body becomes more resistant to this type of drug, and a large dose will be needed to cause disturbances, and in the case of fluoxetine agranulocytosis, on the contrary, pathological reactions will develop even after extremely low test doses.
Another specific difference of hapten agranulocytosis is its acute nature - with the timely cancellation of the drug, which has become a hapten, the number of granulocytes in the blood is restored relatively quickly.
Haptenic agranulocytosis can develop at any age, but it rarely occurs in children. It is believed that women develop this complication of prozac drug therapy more often than men, but with age, this difference is leveled.