Drug side effect

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Drug side effect

Asked for Female, 57 Years

Hello,my mother(age 57yrs) was taking tb.itraconazole 100mg daily since last 2 mnths for fungal infection as per advice of dermatologist. Recently 20 days back,other dermatologist increased dose of itraconazole as 200mg daily and asked her to tk it fr 10 days and stopped. now she stopped it since few days but since last 2 days ,she have facial edema and edema over ankle & foot. As she was not taking any other medications, is it a side effect of itraconazole.wht to do next?

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