Re: Re: Penicilimine for kids with allergies to penicillin?

June 2, 2011

he might be intolerant to sulfa which augmentin has.

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> My son had a reaction to augmentin and the ped noted it as an allergy to

> penicillin. He was about 2 1/2 and had just started regressing in ASD at 2,

> and was being treated for an ear infection (his 2nd one so he had not been

> on many antibiotics previously). On about day 2 he started getting these

> whelps and on day three they were huge and swollen. I didn't think he was

> having breathing issues but took him to a care center and they said the

> inflammation could start inside if left untreated since the swelling/whelps

> were only getting worse. He received a steroid shot and over the next few

> days everything was gone...but he also had seemed to develop sensory

> integration disorder which we hadn't seen yet (maybe he would have anyway,

> but it did coincide w/the augmentin).

>

> Since then, the rare times he's been on antibiotics it has been zythromax

> and bactrim and he's been fine with both. Our doc said that my son could

> have been allergic to something in the augmentin besides the penicillin and

> we did use omoxicillin (sp?) once 4 years after the reaction which my son

> did okay with aside from it tearing up his gut (which was bad enough). But,

> I can tell you, I wouldn't have trusted my reg. ped. to prescribe this....it

> was our DAN doc who seemed so much aware of the side effects and reactions

> our kids have to certain meds. I had a biomed. friend make an interesting

> comment when I told her about his reaction to the augmentin...she said we

> could have provoked something like lyme and that was the reaction we were

> seeing, not just an allergy reaction.

>

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