Allergic reactions to Antibotics

Hi.. I have posted before that last Oct. a year ago this month, my grandson had a terrible reaction to the antibiotics the doctors believe it was the cefepime and possibly the vancomycin. He had steven Johnson syndrome, I cannot tell you how terrible it was for my family but most of all for Connor. He did recover and we do feel lucky because it could have been a lot worse he responded to the steroid treatment, but it took over a month for him to recover. Since that time my grandson Connor has had a reaction to 2 other antibiotics. He has a allergist that follows him, a derm specialist and his CF team. The docs told us Connor would need to start challenge testing, they need to find out what antibiotics he CAN take. He is pretty healthy right now and the bronch they did over the summer has really helped to clean out his lungs his PFT's look great! So he was admitted last week and docs started with Zosyn, they started his IV treatment around 3pm but by 11pm Connor had a reaction. He gets a high fever that just spikes up, chills, red all over, with rash and his labs show liver enzymes elevated. The doctors stopped the Zosyn and the next day he broke out in a rash with tiny blisters they gave him Benadryl which did not help.. then started steroids and that did help. Connor was fine, and got to go home the next day. He only has a little rash at this time. The doctors talked to my daughter for a long time, this is the problem due to previous reactions and the reaction to...
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