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Death can result from extensive infection, intestinal bleeding, mineral imbalance or dehydration.
Treatment consists of intravenous fluids in a sterile, protected hospital environment. Steroids may reduce the severity of the skin reaction if given early, but must be used cautiously because cortisone also reduces resistance to infection. Toxic epidermal necrolysis is an unusual, dreaded and unpredictable complication of drug therapy, but your father should suffer no long-term consequences from it. My mother and grandmother have varicose veins. I'm only 21 but already have prominent veins in my legs.