Non‐immediate hypersensitivity reactions to beta‐lactam antibiotics in children – our 10‐year experience in allergy work‐up

Abstract

A diagnostic work-up should be performed in all children with non-immediate reactions to BL, to remove a false label of hypersensitivity. Even though only 57 (5.5%) of 1026 children displayed positive responses to delayed-reading intradermal tests to BL, such tests appear to be useful in order to reduce the risk for positive DPTs.