If you are a doctor and suddenly you get a call from your patient that he is got an orange urine, and no other symptoms and then he tells you he is on rifampin. The first thing you do is you get a sigh of relief and explain him that rifampin can cause this so there is not a immediate panic situation however you ask him for a check up. See there you go one less panic situation and easy way for differential diagnosis.
Well how do you know that rifampin can cause this? You studied in medicine and because of mechanism of action, yes you are right but one more definitive aspect behind this information that helps many physicians worldwide and which many people in india at least are not aware is that we know possible side effects of many drugs, because of pharmacovigilance Not many people know what is Pharmacovigilance, my personal experience. When people ask me what I do ?They expect me to…
