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1089035 No.1089035 [Reply] [Original]

How rare is allergy to penicillin and cephalosporins?

I have both. (inb4 I am fucked)

Heard that penicillin allergy is as rare as about 1 per 100,000 individuals but this sound as a gross exaggeration, since I am not the only person I've heard of with similar allergy (and also at least 2 of my 3 siblings have the same allergies, so it seems as a dominant trait since my mother does not have it).

Is penicillin allergy co-related with cephalosporine allergy or I am just epically unlucky?

Any medfags here to enlighten me?

>> No.1089058

My aunt is allergic to penicillin.

That's all I know about the subject, lol.

>> No.1089069

>>1089035
> Heard that penicillin allergy is as rare as about 1 per 100,000 individuals but this sound as a gross exaggeration, since I am not the only person I've heard of with similar allergy
I heard the odds of getting heads is 50% but this sound as a gross exaggeration, since I have flipped a coin and got heads twice in a row

>> No.1089071

well they're both β-lactams aren't they?

I'd guess related

>> No.1089081

>>1089035
Of course if you count your siblings you have an higher proportion since you all have the same retarded gene in your family

>> No.1089119

OP, are you also allergic to eggs?

>> No.1089131

how are you :D

>> No.1089134

what are you talking about, you ARE fucked.

>> No.1089288

Enjoy dying of pneumonia.

>> No.1089319

I'm allergic to penicillin and almost died when I was a kid. As far as I know I'm not allergic to cephalosporine so I think it's not related.