My daughter recently developed an allergy to penicillin. Her pedi said that in the future she will need to take cefprozil as an antibiotic, but the drug info on it says not to take it if you've had penicillin allergies. Anyone know about this?
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i am 15, soon to be 16, in march of this year i developed an alergy to penecillin. 3 days ago i woke up and my ENTIRE body hurt. enough that it brought me to tears, and my throat hurt too. Yesterday i went to the hospital and all they came up with was that i had strep throat and they prescribed me with cefprozil. so im kind of in the same boat because i told the lady i was allergic to penecillin and when i read the cefprozil pamphlet today it said something about penecillin allergies and yeah.. :S
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Cefprozil is a cephalosporin antibiotic. Because the cephalosporins are structurally similar to the penicillins, some individuals allergic to penicillin antibiotic may be allergic to a cephalosporin antibiotic. The incidence of cross-sensitivity is about 5-10%.
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