Allergy to penicillin

[jenbug]

My ODD has a severe allergy to penicillin. From what I have been reading, it is one of the lines of drugs that seem to work best for this. What others work just as good?

[smartyjones]

for some kids, different abx work best - for some, it's a bit of trial and error.

 

at onset, we believed ds to have a penicillin allergy. he was first put on 5 days of azith but had a terrible time with it. at the time, i thought it was a negative reaction to that abx, although he'd been on it before in his life with no problem. we later discovered lyme, so it could have been a herx reaction. we'll never really know. it was so horrible, i think i'll avoid azith in the future.

 

he was then put on 30 days of keflex and had 100% remission in about 3 days. but, alas, only 30 days and he relasped about 30 days off abx. if i only knew then what i know now . . .

Edited June 1, 2011 by smartyjones