SC - allergy-kit questions--answers

[Gretchen M Beck]

Excerpts from internet.listserv.sca-cooks: 13-Oct-98 RE: SC -
allergy-kit questi.. by "Conni Hazelwood"@swbell 
>    As for myself, the fact that I am an RN aside, if someone was having an
> anaphylactic reaction at a feast I was attending, I WOULD USE THE EPI-KIT if
> one was to be had.  The most severe complication a person could suffer from
> the improper use of this is on so severe as being dead!

I wouldn't go quite that far -- remember, asthamatics who show up in the
emergency room are often given an EKG before medicating to determine if
their heart will stand up to the Epi.  But, the chances of the
epinephrine giving you a heart attack are lower than the chances of
suffocating.

toodles, margaret 
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