Recent figures have shown that over the past 5 years there has been a noticeable increase in children being admitted to hospitals in England for severe allergic reactions according to recent NHS figures.
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Schools from today (1st October 2017) will be able to order and buy extra adrenaline auto-injectors such as EpiPen, Jext or Emerade, from pharmacies and store them for emergency use only, this is because there has been a change in the law.
Anaphylactic Shock or Anaphylaxis as it sometimes known as is an extremely dangerous allergic reaction which can be triggered by prescription drugs such as Penicillin, reactions can occur with certain foods to and the more common ones are peanuts, seafood, insect bites, hair dye chemicals (that’s why hairdressers do a ‘patch test’ with customers), in fact there are lots of things that can trigger an allergic reaction.
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