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Gingival Hyperplasia from Phenytoin. Gingival hyperplasia from phenytoin. The mechanisms of adverse reactions to drugs vary. Some, like the urticarial or eczematous, are clearly based on an allergic or immunologic mechanism; others are utterly obscure in mechanism. Such is the gingival hyperplasia caused by phenytoin.
Penicillin reactions â Incidence. â 80-90% of patients who report they are âallergicâ to penicillin (PCN) actually have. negative skin tests and are not at increased risk of an IgE-mediated allergic reaction. â Penicillin reactions of some type occur in 0.7 to 10% of all patients who get the drug. â BUT: The incidence of anaphylactic reactions is 0.004% to 0.015%. â Rates of cross-reactive IgE-mediated allergic reactions to cephalosporins in PCN-. allergic patients appear to be uncommon (<5%), but do occur.