New guidelines for de-labeling of penicillin allergy urge allergists to skip skin testing and recommend direct oral challenge to low-risk patients. Validated risk tools can help.
"If we go by IgE testing alone, we re going to overdiagnose the vast majority of people with food allergies that they don t actually have," according to Dr David R. Stukus.
All chemotherapy agents can induce hypersensitivity reactions, but the authors of a European position paper say there is little agreement on how to investigate the cause of the reactions and treat them.