Penicillin Allergy

Most primary care providers understood that many patients with penicillin allergy labels are not truly allergic, and they recognized when an immediate reaction to penicillin should preclude its further use, according to survey results.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Pediatric primary care offices can perform graded oral amoxicillin challenges during routine visits, according to a presentation at the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Scientific Meeting.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A direct referral pathway streamlined the de-labeling of penicillin allergies among pregnant patients, according to a poster presented at the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Scientific Meeting.

Almost one-third of patients who had their penicillin allergies de-labeled might decline penicillin prescriptions or remained unsure about their allergy status, according to a study published in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.

Patients with COVID-19 in the ICU safely and effectively received direct oral challenges for low-risk and unverified penicillin allergies, according to a study published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.

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Patients with penicillin allergy labels experienced worse outcomes with bacterial pneumonia than patients who did not have these labels, according to a study published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.

After patients experience potential allergic reactions to a medicine, they can suffer several long-term adverse consequences that people do not often think about.

The British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology has released guidelines for clinicians in the U.K. who are not trained in allergy or immunology to evaluate and test patients with an unsubstantiated label of penicillin allergy.

Antibiotic allergies frequently were incompletely and inconsistently documented in a tertiary pediatric hospital setting, according to a study presented at the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Hybrid Congress.