{"id":68242,"date":"2024-09-28T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2024-09-28T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?p=68242"},"modified":"2024-09-25T15:39:21","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T19:39:21","slug":"national-penicillin-awareness-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/national-penicillin-awareness-day\/","title":{"rendered":"National Penicillin Awareness Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sept. 28 in 1928, penicillin was discovered. Today, about 10% of the population report having a penicillin allergy, though 9 in 10 of those who report the allergy do not actually have it.<\/p>\n<p>Misdiagnosis can occur in childhood, as providers may take symptoms of the infection as signs of penicillin allergy.<\/p>\n<p>Correctly labeling allergies is crucial, and can save patients hundreds of dollars in medications, and countless hours of testing. Not to mention, using penicillin stand ins when unnecessary risks antimicrobial resistance.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"Apple-interchange-newline\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7261 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2018\/12\/mildred-kwan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of kids get penicillin or amoxicillin when they get sick because that is the normal tendency to treat respiratory infections,\u201d said Mildred Kwan, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine. \u201cThe problem is that children can get rashes with infections, especially viral infections, even without treatment with antibiotics. But if they got a penicillin to treat the infection, the practitioner attributes the rash to the use of the penicillin. One major issue is that many providers have a misperception about what is considered to be a drug allergy,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a id=\"LPlnkOWA07974e5d-9032-2eb3-19a5-fc4317fad186\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/educational-resources\/penicillin-allergy-assessment-tool-kit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">Penicillin Allergy Assessment Tool Kit | Carolina Antimicrobial Stewardship Program (unc.edu)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sept. 28 in 1928, penicillin was discovered. Today, about 10% of the population report having a penicillin allergy, though 9 in 10 of those who report the allergy do not actually have it. Misdiagnosis can occur in childhood, as providers may take symptoms of the infection as signs of penicillin allergy. Correctly labeling allergies &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/national-penicillin-awareness-day\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about National Penicillin Awareness Day\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116983,"featured_media":57663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>National Penicillin Awareness Day | Department of Medicine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/national-penicillin-awareness-day\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"National Penicillin Awareness Day | Department of Medicine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On Sept. 28 in 1928, penicillin was discovered. 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