DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 78-year-old male in fairly good health. I recently was prescribed Bactrim (a sulfa drug) for an ear infection but didn’t know I am allergic to sulfa. I had a severe reaction to ...

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Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 78-year-old male in fairly good health. I recently was prescribed Bactrim (a sulfa drug) for an ear infection but didn’t know I am allergic to sulfa. I had a severe reaction to ...

If the original sulfa reaction was severe and serious, steer clear of any of the members of the broad sulfa family. Otherwise, a non-antibiotic sulfa medication probably isn t going to hurt. In a ...

WEBVTT but they CAN trigger severereactionsand make it difficult forsomeone to receive medicaltreatment.Penicillin, sulfa drugs, andtetracycline are the antibioticsmostlikely to cause problems. Infact ...

I'm writing about a recently posted "Ask the Expert" column in reply to a question about penicillin allergy and cross-reactivity with sulfa drugs. Dr. Briceland is certainly correct that there is no ...

A study of more than 1.7 million patients found that women had significantly more allergies to common medications than men. The study, reported in the journal Allergy, analyzed allergies to individual ...