Erythema multiforme has many causes, most commonly are drugs. Penicillin, sulfonamides, certain epilepsy drugs, aspirin, and acetaminophen are the most likely medication-induced causes. Erythema multiforme can also be caused by.

Erythema multiforme appears on the skin and the mucous membranes (the lining of the mouth, digestive tract, vagina, and other organs). Large, symmetrical red blotches appear all over the skin in a circular pattern. On mucous membranes.

Erythema multiforme is a skin disorder due to an allergic reaction or infection. The symptoms are fever, general ill feeling, itching of the skin, joint aches, and multiple skin lesions. If not treated it can be really serious, even fatal.

Erythema Multiforme is usually caused by a reaction to a certain type of medication. The best way to treat the hypersenstivity is to treat the intial problem that you had when your medication first began.

017.1 Erythema nodosum with hypersensitivity reaction in tuberculosis
[0-6]
Bazin's disease
Erythema:
induratum
nodosum, tuberculous
Tuberculosis indurativa
Excludes:
erythema nodosum NOS (695.2) view

7.6976413726807 695.0 Toxic erythema
Erythema venenatum view

7.2985882759094 713.3 Arthropathy associated with dermatological disorders
Code first underlying disease, as:
erythema multiforme (695.10-695.19)
erythema nodosum (695.2)
Excludes:
psoriatic arthropathy (696.0) view

7.1016163825989 695.10 Erythema multiforme, unspecified
Erythema iris
Herpes iris view

7.1016163825989 695.2 Erythema nodosum
Excludes:
tuberculous erythema nodosum (017.1) view

5.8707094192505 695.19 Other erythema multiforme view

5.8707094192505 946.1 Erythema [first degree] view

5.8707094192505 949.1 Erythema [first degree] view

5.8068675994873 057.0 Erythema infectiosum [fifth disease] view

5.8068675994873 695.11 Erythema multiforme minor