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donnagio
04/27/08
donnagio
Category: Allergy

My daughter has experienced skin allergic reactions to five different types/fams of antibiotics.

This saga started when my daughter was 2 years old. Today she is 9. She has had two severe reactions to penicillin - the first was undetected as such (she broke out in head to toe (and I mean head to toe) hives) and with the second, which was much more severe, she was diagnosed with serum…

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