What is the treatment of penicillin allergy

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   It is advisable to avoid taking penicillin if there is a known allergy to the drug. Your doctor will recommend some other medicine not belonging to the penicillin family. Sometimes distantly related antibiotics can be safely taken without a reaction. In the worst case, if you must take only penicillin for some illness, then the doctor will tell you to undergo desensitization for penicillin. You must undergo desensitization in a hospital under the strict supervision of a doctor. Under this the doctor will give you very small doses of penicillin, orally or in the form of an injection. He will then observe your reaction and monitor the dose accordingly. This desensitization takes one or two days and may not work for all people allergic to penicillin. Once you stop taking penicillin the desensitization stops.

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