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W.L., a 59-year-old man, awakened at 10 a.m. on April 4, 1962, with a sore throat and swallowed 1 250-mg. tablet of potassium penicillin, or potassium phenoxymethyl penicillin (V-Cillin K).
In both anaphylactic and anaphylactoid reactions, a very similar clinical picture develops requiring identical immediate management; the precise mechanism involved may however be important in ...
There were no anaphylactoid reactions in either of these series. Wannamaker et al. 4 gave 1,000,000 units of buffered penicillin G twice daily by mouth for ten days to each of 1372 patients, and ...
So the allergic reactions in anaphylaxis can differ in terms of what parts of the body are affected. Sometimes it's just the skin, like hives and swelling. Sometimes there's other parts of the ...
Anaphylaxis can be life-threatening, with impaired breathing and drops in blood pressure that usually occur within minutes or even seconds after exposure to a food or medicine, or even a substance ...