Saturday, May 14, 2011

Follow-up to "Are You Sure You're Allergic to Penicillin?"

So we finally got around to doing the in-office penicillin challenge described in the original post.

Sure enough, no reaction.  Sat in an office for two hours waiting to "blow up like a blowfish", as my doctor put it, and nothing happened.

Pretty cool.

2 comments:

  1. Hot damn. I've been carrying around the "I'm allergic to penicillin" card my whole life. Going to ask my doctor if he'd be up for confirming that.

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  2. Any allergist ought to be able to perform a skin test for penicillin. But keep in mind, penicillin allergies are real, you might indeed be allergic.

    But it is a nice weight to have off your shoulders.

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