School Stocked Epi Used for Undiagnosed Wasp Allergy

[Macabre]

http://www.wate.com/story/23363697/tellico-plains-school-nurse-saves-student-with


An elementary aged Tennesee boy experienced anaphylaxis after getting stung by a wasp at school. The school nurse saved him with an epipen she had on hand.

Nice ending!

[CMdeux]

That is a great ending!!


I'm so happy that epinephrine is finally be treated like the AED's that are everywhere now. 

[joanna5]

That is a fabulous story.  Every parent- regardless of their children's allergy status- should be asking if their school has stock Epis. Ours does, but there are still schools that do not.

[YouKnowWho]

I begged since the law passed in our state.  However they made it up to the individual counties to supply them.  My county refused to do it.

While that is an awesome story of why it's needed, there are so many people entering the school in my county under the false assumption that there will be stock epinephrine when that is not the case. 

And yes - school nurse had been told by me and several other parents, use our children's epinephrine if needed (between the boys they had four of them and it would be some stroke of cosmic unluckiness that both of them would need epi's at the same time).

[hezzier]

Our law is also voluntary and since we don't have a district physician, it's not going to happen.  I tried last year, but our allergist said no.  Then I tried to get a friend's husband to do it, but it was like playing the game telephone and the message that I wanted him to prescribe the epis just didn't get through.  I even offered to pay for the prescriptions for our school.

I told the nurse the same thing...to use our epis if she needed to.

I forgot to ask our family doctor if he would do it.  DD has an appt tomorrow, maybe I'll ask him then. 

[twinturbo]

Great idea faulty on the execution or just a momentum thing? I can't imagine why any school wouldn't want to stock it.

[LinksEtc]

Great story!

[Macabre]

I wasn't sure where to our this. It's not a happy ending.

It was fire ants in South Texas. I have heard tales of this happening to men mowing the lawn. I assume it is allergy and not another mechanism, but I could be wrong.

http://www.kiiitv.com/story/23441138/8th-grader-dies-after-severe-allergic-reactionto-ant-bites?clienttype=generic&smartdevicecgbypass