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- Erhan Bayram, Meral Torun Bayram, Semra Hiz, and Mehmet Turkmen.
- Department of Pediatric Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey. dr.erhanbayram@yahoo.com
- Pediatr Emerg Care. 2012 Jan 1;28(1):55-6.
AbstractOculogyric crisis is a neurologic adverse event characterized by bilateral dystonic, usually upward, conjugate eye deviations. Cefixime is a third-generation cephalosporin and is widely used in clinical practice in childhood. Confusion, encephalopathy, coma, myoclonus, nonconvulsive status epilepticus, and seizures have been described with the use of cephalosporins. We presented a cefixime-induced oculogyric crisis in a 7-year-old boy during the treatment of urinary tract infection, and this is the first case of cefixime-induced oculogyric crisis whose ocular symptoms gradually disappeared within 48 hours after the drug was discontinued.
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