Drug fever is a adverse drug reaction commonly found in clinical cases. It is mainly caused by the direct or indirect taking in of medicines for fever. Though it is frequently seen in clinical cases, drug fever is hard to be examined. It is a must to eliminate any other causes that may lead to a fever, stop taking in related medicines and thus to ascertain that this is a drug fever. Up till now, there is no direct examination method and norm for a proper diagnosis. Therefore, this leads to a wrong judgment. If it is impossible to stop the taking of medicines for drug fever, life can be endangered. Hereby, this case report is presented to raise the awareness of all fellow colleagues.
The patient was an eighty-one year-old male. He was fallen down accidentally and thus was admitted to hospital. It had been diagnosed that he had intracranial hemorrhage and Craniotomy was done to remove all blood. Due to respiratory failure, he was transmitted to the Respiratory Care Center after Tracheostomy. He had sustained fever while staying in the hospital, and was finally diagnosed as having drug fever after eliminating all other possible causes. The patient’s body temperature returned to normal level after adjusting the dosage of levothyroxine. He had been weaned of mechanical ventilator, transferred to the ward and was discharged from the hospital then.
