What to do if your baby is allergic to penicillin

Babies generally have weaker constitutions and their body resistance is not as good as that of adults, so they get sick easily. Colds and fevers are the most common illnesses in babies. Many parents believe that if they are not allergic to penicillin, their babies will certainly not be allergic either, so they give their babies drugs indiscriminately without doing skin tests, causing the babies to become allergic to penicillin, and in severe cases, it may even take the baby's life. So what should I do if my baby is allergic to penicillin?

An allergic reaction to a drug, also known as an allergic reaction, refers to an adverse reaction that occurs when a patient with a specific constitution uses a certain drug. Baby's penicillin allergy often manifests as skin flushing, itching, rash, and difficulty breathing. In severe cases, shock or death may occur. So, in life, how do we determine drug allergic reactions? What are the symptoms of penicillin allergy?

Symptoms of penicillin allergy:

1. Symptoms of penicillin allergy generally do not occur during the first use of the drug.

2. Symptoms of penicillin allergy: The body is in a sensitive state. After re-contact with the allergen, the disease may occur within a few minutes to 24 hours. In some cases, the onset may be delayed to a few days.

3. Symptoms of penicillin allergy: After an allergic reaction occurs, stop taking the drug. Mild symptoms can disappear quickly and the prognosis is good. If severe cases are not treated promptly, it may lead to death or sequelae.

4. For patients who have been sensitized, the pathogenicity of the drug may persist for a long time, even for life. Taking the drug again may cause the original symptoms to reappear or become more severe. The more times a patient is exposed to the drug, the more severe the reaction tends to be.

5. Drugs with similar structures often cause cross or complete cross allergic reactions.

6. Certain diseases can increase the body's sensitivity to drugs, but after serious illness, trauma or major surgery, the allergic reactions of some original drugs will be alleviated or disappear.

7. Allergic reactions to some drugs can be detected by skin tests, but there are also cases where the skin test results do not match the actual clinical reactions.

8. Drug allergic reactions are different from the symptoms of the original disease, such as asthma caused by aspirin, indomethacin, deafness caused by gentamicin and streptomycin, anaphylactic shock caused by penicillin and iodine preparations, etc. . .