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are used with the bacterial infections. These preparations are aimed at ceasing of the bacteria growth or their killing. Since there are so many types of the micro-organisms and their changing sensibility to the antibiotic treatment, new antibiotics are produced every year.

Nowadays there is a whole range of various antibiotics types, which vary from each other in their chemical structure. Some belong to the related groups, others are different. Within the related groups the cross-reactions often appear i.e. the patient replies to all antibiotics of a particular group with the allergy.

Since the antibiotic treatment is considered an often impact, the allergic patients have their drug allergens marked in their health documentation. In spite of that we should be aware of the particular allergy starting allergen and should inform about it our doctor every time we visit him.

It is possible that the doctor, who is standing in for our doctor, does not have our health documentation at his/her disposal or that we will fall ill during our vacation or business trip. One particular antibiotic can be named differently, which commonly happens especially while travelling abroad. Moreover the medication, which was prescribed recently and which name you do not know, can belong to the derived group of antibiotics with the cross reaction.