If penicillin became the pinnacle antibiotic why are many of us now allergic?

Question

Many people now are allergic to it, well I say many but I know a fair few who are.

How did it become the pinnacle antibiotic but yet cause some of us issues now

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Answer 1

Penicillin and its derivatives have been around longest, and are therefore the least expensive and most widely available. The more people take them, and the more frequently the same person takes them, the more opportunities there are to develop an allergy.