Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Nine out of 10 patients who report a penicillin allergy can tolerate penicillin and are not allergic. Formal ...

Penicillin G sodium 5million Units/mL; pwd for IM inj or continuous IV drip after reconstitution; contains sodium 1.68mEq per million Units. Bacteremia, pneumonia, endocarditis, pericarditis, empyema, ...

Emergency department (ED) clinicians frequently are told that a child presenting to them for care has a penicillin allergy. A 2017 study [1] (reviewed here) evaluated children whose parents reported ...

In a randomized controlled trial of close to 1000 Ugandan children and youth with latent rheumatic heart disease (RHD), those who received monthly injections of penicillin G benzathine for 2 years had ...

The many varieties of penicillin have a unique disadvantage: about one in a hundred patients who get them by injection becomes sensitized, so that his next shot may produce a severe reaction marked by ...