Allergic reaction to medication

You don't have the ability to punish tort feasors, stupid people, or even criminals.

There are governmental agencies charged with the responsibility to protect the citizenry.

What you can do, is speak with a couple, local medical malpractice attorneys relative to what you endured.

Most attorneys offer prospective clients a FREE initial consultation.

Make an appointment or two, take your documentation with you to assist in telling your side of the story.

Don't hold out hope of getting rich.

If this ever reoccurs in your future, IMMEDIATELY visit an urgent care clinic or hospital ER. That way you'll possess documentation to assist in proving your victimization.

 

I thought it was common knowledge that if you have an allergy to one "cillin", you shouldn't try taking the others.

That said, I always had to point out to my kid's pediatrician that kid has an amoxicillin allergy - and pediatrician's the one that diagnosed it!

I suppose you could file a complaint against the dentist, because you're lucky the reaction wasn't a lot worse. It's important that people prescribing medications have some basic knowledge about common contraindications.

Complaint & Investigations Process – Texas State Board of Dental Examiners
How to Submit a Complaint – Texas State Board of Dental Examiners


I also think you should have been more aware.

 

Even if the prescribing of the drug was negligent (and I'm not saying it is here), you don't seem to have any lasting damages so you've not hit the malpractice lottery here.

 

I really don't think there is anything we can help you with.

 

Not a doctor, nor do I play one on tv, but I suspect there are no long-term threats.

 

You can't sue for something that hasn't happened yet and may never happen. When and if you suffer some kind of adverse health reaction that can be directly and medically traced to this incident, that will be time enough to take legal action. For now, a suit because you MIGHT have a health issue related to this in future would be thrown out before you ever set foot inside a courtroom.

FYI as someone who once spent ten days in the hospital as a result of a previously undiagnosed and unknown allergy to the other major antibiotic family, I am here to tell you, 57 years later, that the chances that you will suffer any long term health threats as a result of what you've described are minimal, at best.

 

My wife has allergies to some drugs and she was prescribed an unrelated and still had a reaction from it. Fortunately, I had been a paramedic years ago and said "looks like a drug allergy to me" and got her to the doc. Shiat happens.

This is why the local pharmacy has a rather privacy-invasive history on you. They don't want the liability of giving something you already claimed you had allergies to or two drugs that interact. CYA really, even though the prescribers should bear the brunt of the blame.

 

During one of my tours in Nam, many decades ago, I developed cellulitis in my right foot. I was hospitalized for two weeks.

Penicillin saved my life, but I was admonished never to take any cillins for the duration of my life.

Later in life, I became an osteopathic physician, in a joint JD/DO educational program.

Just for your personal reference, I suggest you discuss the ANTIBIOTICS you CAN tolerate with your primary care physician.

This will help you jump start the discussion.

The classes of antibiotics are:

penicillins
macrolides
cephalosporins
fluoroquinolones
tetracyclines
sulfonamides
urinary anti-infectives
lincosamides

 

Ask for one.

Unless you stand at her door and talk to her patients one by one (which is likely to get you sued) you will not have, and never will have, control over any risk borne by any of her patients.

 

So... did you follow the state specific links that I posted?

Oh wait, I misread this as concern for other people, and preventing this from happening again.

Consult your personal physician for reassurance.