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===Severity grading===
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! Severity<ref name=sffa>{{cite web|url=http://www.sffa.nu/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Anafylaxi_sept_2015.pdf|title=Anafylaxi - svårighetsgradering <nowiki>[</nowiki>Anaphyaxis, severity grading<nowiki>]</nowiki> (Table 1)|website=Swedish Association for Allergology|author=Anaphylaxis group}} 2015</ref> !! Skin<ref name=sffa/> !! Eyes and nose<ref name=sffa/> !! Mouth and GI tract<ref name=sffa/> !! Skin<ref name=sffa/>Airways !! Circulatory<ref name=sffa/> !! Mental<ref name=sffa/>
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! Non-anaphylactic allergic reaction
==Prevention==
{{Main|Prevention of contrast medium reaction}}
Before a contrast CT of a patient with known allergic-like or unknown-type of contrast reaction to the same class of contrast medium (such as iodinated), the American College of of Radiology recommends premedication with a glucocorticoid, preferably starting 12 or 13 hours before contrast administration.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.acr.org/-/media/ACR/Files/Clinical-Resources/Contrast_Media.pdf#page=11|title=Page 9 in: Manual on Contrast Media|website=American College of Radiology, Committee on Drugs and Contrast Media|accessdate=2018-08-25}} Version 10.3. 2018. ACR </ref>
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