This concerns my daughter, Meg, 26 years old and a struggling actress living in Manhattan since March 2014. (Before I ask my question, I'll offer a little patient background.) Meg has some chronic health issues, including asthma and environmental allergies including cat, shellfish, and a sulpha drug allergy, IBS and gluten sensitivity (off of it one year and doing well), Graves Disease (diagnosed at 12 and well-controlled), dry eye (she has plugs which work well), frequent upper respiratory infections, hypermobility joint issues for which she does lots of strengthening exercises, and migraines for which, until moving to NYC, she received botox injections. She's also developed a troubling allergy to mosquito bites, where when bitten, the bite can swell to enormous size and last for two or three weeks. (She also has always had a tendency to get upper respiratory infections, and developed walking pneumonia in August 2014.) Before relocating to NYC, she lived in Rochester NY, was on our private health insurance, and had excellent medical care. Now that she has HMO Medicaid and NYC private physicians don't accept Medicaid, she relies on clinics in Manhattan for her urgent care. (In January 2015, she will begin receiving allergy injections at the Columbia Allergy Clinic, which should help her asthma and allergies.) Now, to my questions/concerns. On 11/4/14, Meg developed symptoms of strep throat including extreme sore throat, swollen tonsils, white spots on throat and difficultly swallowing, and on 11/5/14, was seen at at a Columbia Presbyterian Walk-in Clinic by a physician who did a rapid strep test (which was positive) and prescribed a course of penicillin (4 pills a day) until the prescription ran out. For the first two days, Meg took 4 pills a day, and then switched to 3 pills a day and took them until 11/14/14 (almost 10 days-worth) when she developed three itchy red spots on her face which itched each time she took the penicillin. Her last dose of penicillin was on evening of 11/14/14 when she also developed a tightness in her throat and decided to not risk an allergic reaction. (She still had the equivalent of three days worth of penicillin still to take when she took her last pill.) On 11/15/14, she saw a physician at same Columbia Presbyterian walk-in clinic who said that the red spots did not: "Look like an allergic reaction," but that Meg could stop taking the penicillin as she probably was cured of the strep throat. On the morning of 11/18/14, Meg woke up with a sore throat which later went away, but she has continued to have wheezing symptoms)note: only time she wheezes is from exercise or cats), a dry cough, and fatigue since the morning of 11/18/14, and the sore throat comes and goes. My Questions: 1) Could she still have some version of strep and not know it?; and, 2) Stevens-Johnson Syndrome Risk: because of all her known allergies, could she possibly be at risk for Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, In my internet searches, SJS keeps popping up relative to penicillin allergy, and given Meg's history and the fact that NOW she is having ongoing wheezing (this is NOT normal for her, as her is either cat-induced or exercise-induced), has an intermittent sore throat, runny nose and fatigue, I am concerned. Am I CRAZY to be thinking that she could have early signs of Stevens Johnson Syndrome? ANYTHING you can tell me to put my mind at ease would be GREATLY appreciated!