The use of blood cultures should be reserved for patients with an uncertain diagnosis, those who are immunocompromised, and those who are suspected of having hematogenous infections. Outpatient oral antibiotic therapy with a fluoroquinolone is successful in most patients with mild uncomplicated pyelonephritis.
The most common form of hypersensitivity is caused by the direct exposure to inhaled mold spores that can be dead or alive or hyphal fragments which can lead to allergic asthma or allergic rhinitis. The most common effects are rhinorrhea (runny nose), watery eyes, coughing and asthma attacks.
Overview. People can have mold allergies to seasonal outdoor fungi or to indoor-growing molds that can plague them anytimeâor both. Outdoor molds live on decaying leaves, and indoor molds thrive in damp places, releasing allergenic fungal spores when they reproduce.