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Can I Use My Epi-Pen While Pregnant?Epinephrine causes your heart to race, leaving less oxygen for your fetus - is the Epi-Pen injection worth the risk?- Why Are Epinephrine Inhalers Being Discontinued?Asthma sufferers will not be able to buy Primatine Mist aerosol after December 31, 2011 due to the CFC propellant. Persons in need of asthma medication should see their doctors.
- Tips on Giving Yourself an Epinephrine ShotIf you are allergic to bees, peanuts, shellfish or one of a thousand or more things you may be carrying around what is known as an epinephrine pen with you. But the question is do you know how to properly use it?
Allergy Suffers Needing Epinephrine Now Have Easier AccessTBC Medical Devices are bringing the epinephrine key to light as a alternative to patients instead of the bulky cumbersome ones that are currently on the market.
Kids with Food Allergies: Use Epinephrine Injectors CorrectlyAs many as 12 percent of children treated for severe allergic reactions to foods will need more than one injection of epinephrine. Administering epinephrine quickly and correctly is necessary to save lives.- Tips to Insure Quick Relief of Anaphylaxis Symptoms in Obese PatientsQuick relief of anaphylaxis symptoms depends on intramuscular delivery of epinephrine. Automatic injectors have short needles that cannot reach the muscle of overweight patients. Here are tips to insure intramuscular delivery of epinephrine in the obese.
- Managing Epinephrine Side Effects in Children with AllergiesIf your child lives with allergies, it is important to consider how you can effectively manage the side effects of epinephrine, commonly used to treat an allergic reaction.
Inadequacies of EpiPen Trainers and a More Pragmatic AlternativeAnaphylactic patients are given verbal instructions, a DVD and an EpiPen trainer to practice administering an EpiPen. However, there are startling inadequacies in using this method alone. Here's a practice method that uses real EpiPens to help.
When to Replace an Epi-Pen (Epinephrine) Auto-InjectorOwning an EpiPen (epinephrine auto injector)is crucial when dealing with anaphylaxis (life threatening allergies). Equally as important is knowing when the EpiPen should be replaced. Here are some guidelines.- Side Effects of Epinephrine in ChildrenWhen minutes count, an epinephrine auto-injector can save your or your child's life.
- Generalized Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) Alarm Resistance Exhaustion Hans SelyeThis article is an overview of the evolution of stress from the theories of Hans Selye
- 5 Things You Didn't Know About EpiPensIf you need an EpiPen to fight an anaphylactic reaction to allergies, you may not know everything you need to know about your medication.
- EpiPen Disposal: How to Do it SafeyKnowing how to dispose of an EpiPen (epinephrine) auto injector safely when it's expired or faulty is important, and requires some effort and preparation to do correctly. Here's how.
New Research Links Stress to CancerThe stress hormone epinephrine changes prostate and breast cancer cells in ways that may make them resistant to "cell death."
