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HCPs: It’s National Penicillin Allergy Day. Correctly identifying if your patient is truly allergic to penicillin improves patient outcomes and helps to combat antimicrobial resistance. Read more in Dr. Cosby Stone’s blog: https://bit.ly/3QIT2QK

This is an important message to get to the public. Those with a true penicillin allergy have to be appropriately identified to avoid severe reactions. Those with an unclear history of minor, remote and less defined reactions should have a deeper conversation with their healthcare professionals as restricting antibiotic choices can lead to harm of that individual patient as well as help to drive overall antibiotic resistance. #CDC #Antibioticstewardship

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Such an important message. As a patient incorrectly labeled with a penicillin allergy, I dealt with drastic clinical implications from an antimicrobial resistance (AMR) infection. Correctly identifying true antibiotic allergies helps combat AMR and ensures the right drugs are used for the right bugs. #AMRsurvivors #AMR #BeAntibioticsAware #RightDrugsRightBugs

Introducing peanut in infancy prevents peanut allergy into adolescence. Read the article here: https://lnkd.in/gzQAmJZf. #PeanutAllergy #Peanuts #NIH

Raises the question if this type of study should be done for other products such as band ligators, ext balloons, etc. I believe more often than not we would all be surprised. Is the product contact surface big enough to create an allergic reaction? is the contact time long enough? how serious is the reaction? Congrats to the authors.

Thanks Kelly for posting the UNC Health Talk article on Penicillin Allergy Day! Such an important topic so please take a look and learn about penicillin allergy. https://lnkd.in/g85Gmamy

Did you know that about 90% of patients reporting penicillin allergy are NOT truly allergic? NP Alison Moore teaches Canadian NPs about just how easy and satisfying it is to de-label penicillin allergy. She shares this valuable tool for practice: https://lnkd.in/grYPQHjr    #NPAC2024 #NPMomentum #ipdynamisme #aiipc2024

Our latest blog explores the challenges of finding front door handles for customers with a nickel allergy and signposts allergy advisory services https://lnkd.in/ge_sZ-PF #alwayslearning #frontdoors #smallbusinessNorwich #bespokedoubleglazing

Learning that your child has a bee sting allergy can be a scary experience for a parent, but when armed with information, you can feel prepared to help manage and potentially treat your child's allergy. You can find helpful resources on your child's bee sting allergy on our website: https://loom.ly/nGEQuOQ #childallergy #beestingallergy #venomimmunotherapy #allergyresources