Feel free to merge EPI threads

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I noticed the epi thread I started yesterday got stickied.

It's getting a little crowded up there  .

It's fine by me if the board wants to merge the 2 stickied epi threads in some way.

I had started a new thread only because the one seemed to focus more on "instructions" whereas what I was pulling together was more general.




Also feel free to delete this current thread and ....


I ran across this duplicate yesterday (just a starter post)
Grab her inhaler! That LOOKS like an asthma attack! Oh, oops . . . anaphylaxis:
so that can be deleted as well if you want.

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Thanks!!

I'm thinking that maybe in that epi thread, the one that we leave stickied, we can paste the links to other discussions in the first post or something so that they stay handy without being so crowded in the stickies up top.

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It's up to you all, but it might not be a bad idea to have a short section in the thread about talking to their dr/allergist about knowing when & how to use epi.

Could have a couple of links ... ex ...

FARE's action plan

"Lessons From a Teen Food Allergy Tragedy"
http://allergicliving.com/index.php/2013/08/22/lessons-from-a-teen-food-allergy-tragedy/?page=1

"Anaphylaxis Death Rate Down, but Epinephrine Use Poor"
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/780414

"Food Allergies & Prescribed Injectable Epinephrine: Know. Practice. Carry. Use"
http://www.asthmaallergieschildren.com/2012/12/09/food-allergies-prescribed-injectable-epinephrine-know-practice-carry-use/

NIH Guidelines for the diagnosis and: management of FA (2010)