#anaphylaxis — Public Fediverse posts
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Fatal delays in epipen treatment for food anaphylaxis in children, finds research
Fatal delays in administering life-saving adrenaline autoinjector (EpiPen) for food anaphylaxis, a severe and rapid allergic reaction, is…
#NewsBeep #News #Health #Adrenaline #allergy #anaphylaxis #AU #Australia #Breathing #CardiacArrest #Children #Emergencymedicine #food #foodallergy #Heart #Hospital #medicine #mortality #research
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Fatal delays in epipen treatment for food anaphylaxis in children, finds research
Fatal delays in administering life-saving adrenaline autoinjector (EpiPen) for food anaphylaxis, a severe and rapid allergic reaction, is…
#NewsBeep #News #Health #Adrenaline #allergy #anaphylaxis #AU #Australia #Breathing #CardiacArrest #Children #Emergencymedicine #food #foodallergy #Heart #Hospital #medicine #mortality #research
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Microbial metabolism of food allergens determines the severity of IgE-mediated #anaphylaxis.
#Microbiota degrade peanut #allergens, lowering IgE binding & anaphylaxis, revealing a pathway to reduce reactions.
https://davidojcius.blogspot.com/2026/03/microbial-metabolism-of-food-allergens.html #allergy #peanut
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ALK receives positive CHMP opinion for EURneffy 1 mg
ALK-Abello has secured a positive recommendation to extend the marketing authorisation for EURneffy. The opinion covers the 1 mg dose, complementing the 2 mg version approved by the EC in August 2024 for anaphylaxis in patients weighing 30 kg or more. EVP of R&D Henriette Mersebach notes this supports the company pediatric focus for respiratory allergy.
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Why was it so hard to figure out the cause of death was anaphylactic shock?
https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxCTbilYTQnuuyEtHEF07YgWW4vRnmYjXI
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2025-8-9 Is this MCAS anaphylaxis, anxiety, or anaphylaxis from anxiety?
I almost didn’t want to share this one, because I’m in a bit of a nervous state, and I was worried about the people who think people with Long Covid are psychological malingerers, etc. When I had to leave work, and filed for US Social Security Disability, I kept my Generalized Anxiety Disorder out of my initial application, afraid of getting the dreaded “just anxiety,” dismissal that many complex chronic illness kin are familiar with. (I was later told this was a bad move, and to definitely include all mental health and neurodivergence things, which I did for the ongoing process.)
Even as I’m having less anaphylaxis risk, it’s taking time to recover psychologically. I told my therapist how I felt like I backslid over a decade in mental health work overnight from the first recent anaphylaxis episode. She kindly said that while I might feel as scared and threatened as I often did back then, that the trigger was different. I was not feeling that anxious about an email, I was feeling that way about a literal life and death situation, one which I still don’t fully understand the triggers of.
A decade ago, de-stigmatizing mental healthcare was really important to me too. Now, I’m especially aware of how much these issues intersect, so heck yeah, publishing the medical art about anxiety.
Lastly, I wanted to include few examples of the ways in which these issues intersect. These are absolutely the tip of the iceberg.
- Mast Cell Activation Snydrome (often MCAS for space, in my art) can trigger so, so many pyschological symptoms. Mast Attack has a great overview of the topic, and while I haven’t been able to read the study fully because of the severe brain fog, Prevalence and treatment response of neuropsychiatric disorders in mast cell activation syndrome caught my eye.
- Anaphylaxis, or near anaphylaxis, has many symptoms in common with anxiety, from chest tightness to clammy skin, and “a feeling of impending doom”. While MCAS is not allergies, All Things Allergies has an easy intro to anxiety & anaphylaxis, and here’s a study The impact of anaphylaxis on the quality of life and mental health of adults.
- Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome co-occurs with many mental health issues, and I really appreciate how this article lists suspected mechanisms, misattributions, and related factors.
- Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, or POTS, is a form of autonomic dysfuntction (when things your body normally does automatically stop behaving normally), and is a part of my Long Covid. It involves a high heart rate, and often symptoms like room spinning or lightheadedness, trembling or shaking, shortness of breath, and poor bloodflow. POTS is often misdiagnosed as anxiety, and The Disabled Ginger wrote about it here.
Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power are always an index of how much is not understood about the physical terrain of a disease.
Moreover, there is a peculiarly modern predilection for psychological explanations of a disease, as of everything else. Psychologizing seems to provide control over the experiences and events (like grave illnesses) over which people have in fact little or no control. Psychological understanding undermines the ‘reality’ of a disease. That reality has to be explained.
Susan Sontag, illness as metaphor (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977), p. 55.
p.s. mental health is physical health and physical health is mental health. you got a literal brain in your body and all of your body is involved in everything that you do. please take care of yourselves and each other. <3
https://www.illmarks.com/2025-8-9-is-this-mcas-anaphylaxis/
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FYI, Asian needle ants (Brachyponera chinensis) are in the Philadelphia area. Their painful sting can induce anaphylaxis, so be careful. If you find them please submit pic to iNaturalist so Michael Skvarla (Penn State) can come collect samples for confirmation. #ants #stinging #stinger #inaturalist #invasive #insects #anaphylaxis #delco #philadelphia #pennsylvania #hymenoptera https://share.inquirer.com/OTb0j7
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FYI, Asian needle ants (Brachyponera chinensis) are in the Philadelphia area. Their painful sting can induce anaphylaxis, so be careful. If you find them please submit pic to iNaturalist so Michael Skvarla (Penn State) can come collect samples for confirmation. #ants #stinging #stinger #inaturalist #invasive #insects #anaphylaxis #delco #philadelphia #pennsylvania #hymenoptera https://share.inquirer.com/OTb0j7
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FYI, Asian needle ants (Brachyponera chinensis) are in the Philadelphia area. Their painful sting can induce anaphylaxis, so be careful. If you find them please submit pic to iNaturalist so Michael Skvarla (Penn State) can come collect samples for confirmation. #ants #stinging #stinger #inaturalist #invasive #insects #anaphylaxis #delco #philadelphia #pennsylvania #hymenoptera https://share.inquirer.com/OTb0j7
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FYI, Asian needle ants (Brachyponera chinensis) are in the Philadelphia area. Their painful sting can induce anaphylaxis, so be careful. If you find them please submit pic to iNaturalist so Michael Skvarla (Penn State) can come collect samples for confirmation. #ants #stinging #stinger #inaturalist #invasive #insects #anaphylaxis #delco #philadelphia #pennsylvania #hymenoptera https://share.inquirer.com/OTb0j7
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FYI, Asian needle ants (Brachyponera chinensis) are in the Philadelphia area. Their painful sting can induce anaphylaxis, so be careful. If you find them please submit pic to iNaturalist so Michael Skvarla (Penn State) can come collect samples for confirmation. #ants #stinging #stinger #inaturalist #invasive #insects #anaphylaxis #delco #philadelphia #pennsylvania #hymenoptera https://share.inquirer.com/OTb0j7
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When I was first diagnosed with MCAS I thought “a condition I can control!”
I genuinely believed that since there were clear & obvious triggers - I could put in the work, overhaul my life and be free of attacks.
When a patient plans - mast cells laugh.
I threw myself into research trying to learn how to adopt a low histamine diet, clean my air and change my body care and cleaning products.
I (falsely) assumed that if I made enough changes - sacrificed HARD enough - I wouldn’t have to deal with flare ups.
It was exhausting. Many of the changes DID help. A low histamine diet, cleaner air, a proper med and supplement schedule and non toxic cleaning products all helped to reduce my overall “bucket” so that my symptoms were less severe.
The problem was - I continued having attacks. From minor attacks to full blown anaphylaxis - no matter how much work I put in the attacks didn’t stop.
It was incredibly frustrating - and I began tracking everything I ate, used or did in an effort to find patterns.
In the end I realized that sometimes - there are no answers. “Putting in the work” doesn’t guarantee you won’t have attacks.
It’s a help - and we should do whatever we can to minimize our symptoms - but chronic illness (and especially MCAS) doesn’t care about your plans.
I had to learn to let go. Constantly blaming myself, over analyzing every situation and trying to nail down exact triggers was exhausting me.
It wasn’t helping my physical health and was destroying my mental health
At a certain point - we have to accept that chronic illness can be wildly unpredictable - and flares are NOT our fault.
Setbacks happen - and the best thing you can do is give yourself grace and remember that the pain WILL pass.
This applies to Covid as well. I see far too many people who are covid cautious being blamed for their infections. Being grilled as to what their exact precautions were as people try and exploit a perceived weakness somewhere.
This isn’t helping.
If you’re masking and doing everything you can do to avoid covid - you’re doing a great job. If you got infected anyways - that’s the fault of our institutions and governments who’ve allowed the virus to run rampant and encouraged people NOT to take precautions
Just like we have to let go of trying to find every possible trigger for our chronic illness - we have to let go of the blame when people get infected with Covid.
Blame, shame and guilt aren’t helping anyone - and they aren’t good for your health.
To be clear - “letting go” doesn’t have to mean giving up. It doesn’t mean you stop trying to improve your health or stop mitigating for COVID.
It simply means you stop fighting the reality that you’re sick. You lean IN to the conditions and try and find ways to accommodate
It’s a difficult thing to do. I’m still having to work at it every single day. But it’s worth making the effort.
Society, HCWs and even friends & family can be cruel to those with chronic illness - we don’t need to be cruel to ourselves.
Which brings me to my third and final article in my series on living with MCAS - Learning to Let Go.
This post explains how I learned to be kinder & gentler with myself and accept that setbacks WILL happen and they’re not my fault:
https://www.disabledginger.com/p/learning-to-let-go-how-to-accept
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Epinephrine (or Adrenaline) Nasal Spray for Treatment of Anaphylaxis
Neffy (epinephrine nasal spray) has been approved by the FDA for the emergency treatment of Type I allergic reactions including life-threatening...........
#Adrenaline #Allergy #Anaphylaxis #Epinephrine #FDA #NasalSpray #Neffy
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#DisneyWorld says man can’t sue over wife’s death linked to resort #meal as he signed up for Disney
#Disney World has claimed that a man whose wife #died after she suffered a severe #allergic reaction from #dining at the theme park cannot sue because of the terms and conditions he agreed to for a free trial of its TV service … wait for it … in 2019.
#CorporateTerrorism #FoodAllergies #anaphylaxis #incompetence #death #DisneyDeath
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FDA approves first nasal spray for severe allergic reactions
Neffy is an Rx epinephrine nasal spray for adults and children weighing at least 66 lbs for the treatment of anaphylactic shock.
'...the drug is meant to be available about eight weeks from the FDA approval.
In terms of cost, the fee is about $200 out of pocket.
"For people who are on commercial insurance, the cost is going to be limited to about $25," Gounder said. "And then for people who are underinsured or uninsured, it's going to be made no cost for at least some of them, which is really important, because 40% of kids in the United States are on Medicaid or public insurance.'
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Epinephrine (or Adrenaline) Nasal Spray for Treatment of Anaphylaxis
Neffy (epinephrine nasal spray) has been approved by the FDA for the emergency treatment of Type I allergic reactions including life-threatening...........
#Adrenaline #Allergy #Anaphylaxis #Epinephrine #FDA #NasalSpray #Neffy
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Asthma drug Xolair found to reduce risk of fatal allergic reactions | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/asthma-xolair-drug-peanut-allergy-b2503102.html#Asthma
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#NIAID
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Asthma drug Xolair found to reduce risk of fatal allergic reactions | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/asthma-xolair-drug-peanut-allergy-b2503102.html#Asthma
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Asthma drug Xolair found to reduce risk of fatal allergic reactions | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/asthma-xolair-drug-peanut-allergy-b2503102.html#Asthma
#Xolair
#Allergies
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Asthma drug Xolair found to reduce risk of fatal allergic reactions | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/asthma-xolair-drug-peanut-allergy-b2503102.html#Asthma
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CW: anaphylaxis near-misses
At first I thought this was a followup to another story about an anaphylactic reaction during an airplane flight *last week*. No, it's a totally separate incident.
One patient had an expired epi-pen. The other had never had #anaphylaxis before.
Both planes had bottles of #epinephrine and a syringe, not an auto-injector. Fortunately there were doctors on both flights who knew how to properly fill and deliver a shot.
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#EntomologyConsult: a patient develops hives, face swelling and hand swelling 40 minutes after being stung by a #yellowjacket. Should they be prescribed autoinjectable #epinephrine? My answer below. #venom #allergy #anaphylaxis
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So official #introduction for the new platform and #medmastodon as this seems to be the thing!
I probably know lots of folk from #medtwitter #anaesthesia and #HumanFactors the same cross over as many of you.
Based in #melbourne I work as an #anesthesiologist and lead the #usercentreddesign at an #innovation lab. I also research teams in #criticalcare and interventions to improve #patientsafety - mostly in #surgery. Like in #medicationsafety #anaphylaxis and #airway management.