During Antibiotics Awareness Week, what you may not know about penicillin allergy
Since the early 1940s, penicillin – a group of antibiotics that attack a range of bacteria – has been widely prescribed by doctors for the treatment of many common, as well as, more serious infections. The first line of treatment for many infections, penicillin works by interfering with bacteria cell walls and is so commonly used, in fact, that most Americans will have had at least one course of the drug by the time they are adults.
