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Aug 06, 2009 06:08 AM

Antibiotics skin testing for Infants 6 mos. below

by HDiddy

I'm having orientation on my new job as a staff nurse. One of the policies is that infants 6mos below don't get skin testing for antibiotics and when asked for the reason, our batch failed to give any rationale. Our chief nurse was disappointed and asked it be our assignment to know the answer by tomorrow.

I have worked in MS and never encountered any policies like that before. I tried googling to no avail. I'm clueless but I know that at that age infants have enough immune response to warrant a skin test. Please help.

Thanks.


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from janfrn
Old Aug 06, 2009, 10:53 AM

Default Re: Antibiotics skin testing for Infants 6 mos. below
Think about it for a second. What is a skin test looking for? How many infants younger than 6 months have been exposed to antibiotics of any kind? How well-developed is an infant's immune system at 6 months? It may take up to 10 days of exposure to a potential allergen before an infant will develop antibodies to the antigen. There's a reason why infant immunizations are repeated at fixed intervals, "boosted"; it's because there's an incomplete response to the vaccine and repeated exposure ensures more complete coverage. It's the same for antibiotics and other potential allergens.
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