Urgent Bite 39 - Determining Antibiotic Drug Allergies in UC

Drug Allergies - an important part of the history but we often don't have the luxury of knowing accurate, immunologically verified information.  As with a lot of Urgent Care, we are often somewhat in the dark, but one way to avoid an antibiotic reaction is to not give the antibiotic in the first place.

 

RACP Journal of Internal Medicine article

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30667130

BPAC article on URTI

https://bpac.org.nz/2019/rti.aspx

 

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