Neuroleptic Malignant syndrome (NMS): a rare presentation induced by an antiemetic - case report.

Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome is one of the life threatening complications of antipsychotic psychotropic medication. We here report a case of a 39 years old male who has had a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia since the age of 18. He had been on antipsychotic therapy since then. He was stable on a combination of antipsychotics. He had mild hyper-salivation for a long time but was not very concerned about it. He requested and was prescribed Hyoscine Hydrobromide 300 mcg BD for hyper-salivation. There was no other medication change. After 5 days of starting Kwells, the patient presented with Neuroleptic Malignant syndrome. One has to watch for NMS while starting Hyoscine Hydrbromide for someone on antispychotics.