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Audra Kresinske is an educator with over 7 years experience teaching English and employment readiness skills.
Since penicillin is the drug of choice and the patient is allergic to it, you only have two choices--use an alternative drug or desensitize the patient to penicillin and give it as the drug of choice. The problem is that alternative drugs may not cross the placenta and prevent/treat infection of the unborn baby. Although this question assumes knowledge that crosses specialties, you can't go wrong by inviting appropriate consultation to help.

Audra Kresinske is an educator with over 7 years experience teaching English and employment readiness skills.
"Since erythromycin or other anti-syphilis drugs don't cross the placenta, I would desensitize the patient to penicillin, which is certainly within my specialty's purview. I'm not an OBGYN, so if something else complicates this approach in which I do not feel comfortable, I would enlist the help of consultations from a maternal-fetal medicine specialist."

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