Several people have discussed EpiPen and Lloyd has asked about cautions
needed to be taken with its use.

There is a brilliant website at www.rxlist.com that enables you to get
details about any pharmaceutical drug.

This is what it says about EpiPen.

Just remember that one person dies from every 40,000 prescriptions.
Adrenaline is a very powerful drug. There are a lot of
contraindications, though if you suffer from anaphylaxis then the risks
of using it are less than the anaphylaxis.

Perhaps another drug couild be used to illustrate the risks of taking
drugs unnecessarily. Many doctors recommend taking low dose aspirin to
reduce th erisk of heart disease without out realising that for people
who do not have heart disease are put at risk of dying from bleeding. In
the USA 46 people die every day from Aspirin.

If you don't need EpiPen don't use it -- it's for emergency use only.

Ron Law
(I have been an avid reader of medical literature for thirty years and
lectured in Clinical Biochemistry for ten.)


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