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Allergic reactions after sex should be listed as an antibiotic risk, experts say
Clinicians are calling for patient information leaflets to be updated after a woman had a life-threatening allergic reaction to an antibiotic in her partner’s semen.
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Clinicians are calling for patient information leaflets to be updated after a woman had a life-threatening allergic reaction to an antibiotic in her partner’s semen. They also want healthcare workers to be made aware of such risks during their medical training. “If you read any drug leaflet, they list a whole bunch of super-rare risks, so it’s not unreasonable to also include this risk on those leaflets to boost awareness,” says Cassim Akhoon at King’s College Hospital in London.
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