Cotton Fever: Does the Patient Know Best?

Yingda Xie; Bailey A. Pope; Alan Hunter

doi:10.1007/s11606-015-3424-1

Cotton Fever: Does the Patient Know Best?

Yingda Xie, Bailey A. Pope, Alan Hunter

Hospital Medicine

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Abstract

Fever and leukocytosis have many possible etiologies in injection drug users. We present a case of a 22-year-old woman with fever and leukocytosis that were presumed secondary to cotton fever, a rarely recognized complication of injection drug use, after an extensive workup. Cotton fever is a benign, self-limited febrile syndrome characterized by fevers, leukocytosis, myalgias, nausea and vomiting, occurring in injection drug users who filter their drug suspensions through cotton balls. While this syndrome is commonly recognized amongst the injection drug user population, there is a paucity of data in the medical literature. We review the case presentation and available literature related to cotton fever.

Original language	English (US)
Journal	Journal of General Internal Medicine
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-015-3424-1
State	Accepted/In press - Jun 24 2015

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Fever

Leukocytosis

Drug Users

Injections

Myalgia

Pharmaceutical Preparations

Nausea

Vomiting

Suspensions

Population

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Xie, Y., Pope, B. A., & Hunter, A. (Accepted/In press). Cotton Fever: Does the Patient Know Best? Journal of General Internal Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-015-3424-1

Cotton Fever : Does the Patient Know Best? / Xie, Yingda; Pope, Bailey A.; Hunter, Alan.

In: Journal of General Internal Medicine, 24.06.2015.

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Xie, Y, Pope, BA & Hunter, A 2015, 'Cotton Fever: Does the Patient Know Best?', Journal of General Internal Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-015-3424-1

Xie Y, Pope BA, Hunter A. Cotton Fever: Does the Patient Know Best? Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2015 Jun 24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-015-3424-1

Xie, Yingda ; Pope, Bailey A. ; Hunter, Alan. / Cotton Fever : Does the Patient Know Best?. In: Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2015.

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