“Clarifying antibiotic allergy labels is a relatively low-risk intervention that can have meaningful downstream effects,” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Penicillin is a substance produced by penicillium mold. About 80% of people with a penicillin allergy will lose the allergy after ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Penicillin allergy is one of the most reported drug allergies in the U.S., but the vast majority of those reports are inaccurate.

Most people who believe they are allergic to penicillin likely aren’t, according to a doctor at UVA Health. 10 News Anchor ...

Emergency department (ED) clinicians frequently are told that a child presenting to them for care has a penicillin allergy. A 2017 study [1] (reviewed here) evaluated children whose parents reported ...

Rates of patient reactions to direct penicillin challenges are infrequent and comparable to indirect challenges after allergy testing, according to a meta-analysis in JAMA Internal Medicine. In this ...

Researchers conducted a population-based matched cohort study in a United Kingdom-based general practice from 1995 to 2015. They examined 301,399 adults without previous MRSA or C. diff diagnoses ...

You’ve been itching to avoid this antibiotic — maybe for no reason. Penicillin was discovered in 1928 by a Scottish bacteriologist. The medication has since become a common treatment for a range of ...

Participants in the current study were asked about their knowledge of cross-reactivity of carbapenem, aztreonam, and cephalosporin with penicillin pre- and posteducational intervention. The results ...

Many people believe they have a penicillin allergy, but up to 90% are not actually allergic. Side effects like nausea are often mistaken for a true allergic reaction. An allergist can perform tests to ...

Imagine this: You're at your doctor's office with a sore throat. The nurse asks, "Any allergies?" And without hesitation you reply, "Penicillin." It's something you've said for years – maybe since ...

Penicillin antibiotics are a class of narrow-spectrum antibiotics, which means they target specific types of bacteria. People who report having a penicillin allergy are more likely to receive ...