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In medicine, a contraindication is a condition or factor that serves as a reason to withhold a certain medical treatment due to the harm that it would cause the patient.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Contraindication - Medical Definition and More from Merriam-Webster )〕 Contraindication is the opposite of indication, which is a reason to use a certain treatment. Some contraindications are ''absolute'', meaning that there are no reasonable circumstances for undertaking a course of action. For example, children and teenagers with viral infections should not be given aspirin because of the risk of Reye's syndrome, and a person with an anaphylactic food allergy should never eat the food to which they are allergic. Similarly, a person with hemochromatosis should not be administered iron preparations. Other contraindications are ''relative'', meaning that the patient is at higher risk of complications, but these risks may be outweighed by other considerations or mitigated by other measures. For example, a pregnant woman should normally avoid getting X-rays, but the risk may be outweighed by the benefit of diagnosing (and then treating) a serious condition such as tuberculosis. Relative contraindications may also be referred to as ''cautions'', such as in the British National Formulary. == See also == * ''Classification of Pharmaco-Therapeutic Referrals'' * Drug reaction testing * Indication (medicine) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Contraindication」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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