Penicillin Allergy

A lot of health care providers make the jump oh well it's a rash I was probably hives and that you know hives is along the same pathways and flaxes so you know now we eliminate a whole class of drug. When in reality if you give someone something like a penicillin or a moxacillin and they have a viral infection because we give too many antibiotics for viral infections when you should be reserving those for bacterial infections. People will develop a rash because they have an active viral infection typically macular papular rash which dermatologists will hate if you describe every rash is macular papulate and then send the patient to them but as a side note yeah you

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