How Can I Know If My Penicillin Allergy Is Real?
People with a penicillin allergy on their medical record are not given penicillins (or often their relatives, the cephalosporins) when they have infections. Instead, the antibiotics prescribed may be broader-spectrum, less effective, and/or more toxic. One national study from more than 100 US hospitals with almost 11,000 patients demonstrated that if you have a reported […]
Are you really allergic to penicillin?
The Medicine Cabinet: Ask the Harvard Experts A: Allergies to penicillin are the most commonly reported medication allergy. This can be a real problem. If she is truly allergic to penicillin, she does need to avoid penicillin, amoxicillin and related compounds. Now, this would be just an unavoidable reality of life for penicillin-allergic people, if […]
