Short Story Saturday
"Mum! No running, walk!"
"Yes, that's right, you need to walk when we are outside"
"Walk"
"Yes and you need to hold my hand too"
"Why?"
Allergy Chronicles: Epi-pen and Inhaler knowledge
Seeing as Matthew's allergies are pretty severe... he was prescribed an epi-pen and an inhaler, because apparently if your child has food allergies, they are prone to eczema, (which he did have when he was a baby) and asthma. I'm familiar with Epi-pen's already.. I worked in a school where there were a lot of children with severe peanut allergies, so I had to be trained to use one. They have epi-pen's for children, "Junior" epi-pen's and epi-pen's for adults. An Epi-pen is an Epinephrine pen-- it's in a shape of a pen that you inject into your thigh to give you a dose of Adrenaline in case you have gone into anaphylactic shock; and this is when you have ingested something that you are allergic to.. and you have responded quite badly, either your airways have closed or your tongue has swollen up so much where you can't breathe.. so that shot of Epinephrine or adrenaline will be enough to get you to a hospital to be treated-- it is not a cure, it...
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