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re: amoxil rash

We have pharmacies in town that will *refuse* to dispense a cephalosporin if a child has been labelled penicillin allergic.  I've had pharmacists tell me they don't "feel comfortable" dispensing the cephalosporin.

Eve H. Switzer, MD
rural peds

ps - we've been hit hard with rotavirus and RSV since the weekend - 10 inpatients (just mine) in our little town of 50,000.  Walgreens is out of pedialyte...

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