During the study period, 13% of the patients hospitalized in the general surgery service were given a red wristband due to a history of allergy. However, allergy labels were also applied to patients who reported allergies to cosmetics, cleaning chemicals, house dust, pollen, and bee stings. The proportion of patients with red wristbands for reasons other than food or drug allergy was 35% of the entire allergy label group (Table 1). The drug allergy rate among all inpatients was 7.2%, the antibiotic allergy rate was 3.8%, and the penicillin allergy rate was 2.1%. In the patient group with allergy labeling, the drug allergy rate was 55.3%, the antibiotic allergy rate was 29.1% and the penicillin allergy rate was 16.3% (Table 2).