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I am sad to her of your daughters drug prescription problems.  I am in search of answers myself.  We have a similar situation with my 11 year old son.  He was diagnosed with strep throat 3 weeks ago.  He is allergic to pencillin, same head to toe rash, so they put him on Keflex, he broke out in a rash 30 hours later on his trunk, we headed back to the doctor.  This time they put him on Zithromax 1 tsp. a day.  this seem to be alright.  We ended up at the doctor one week later, still positive with strep, they raised his Zithromax to 2 tsp. a day.  He started with diarrhea, I was thinking diarrhea was better than an itchy rash.  I was wrong, yesterday, 4 days into the higher dose of Zithromax, My son had passed out in science class, with a faint pulse, numb in all his extremities, and headache with black spots, 911 was called.  Come to find out he has had prolonged cardiac arrhythmia on Zithromax.  So no more Zithromax for us needles to say.  We are seeing a ear, nose and throat specialist, with lots of questions.  I can feel for you, it is very frustrating when there are so many drugs out there, but they can not take any of them to get better.  All you want as a parent is for your children is the best for them, and you are helpless, this is where my prayer came in yesterday.  It is very comforting to know that there are other people stuggling with the same allergy issues.