anyone use epipen for bee/wasp stings?

halfpint · #21 05/05/10, 07:24 AM

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Originally Posted by deaconjim

The medicine may be good past the expiration date, but you do run a serious risk if an out of date pen is all you have. I was an EMT, and although we did not carry a pen onboard the ambulance (it varies from region to region), we were authorized to use the patient's pen if it was prescribed to them and it was not out of date. Even if the medicine was good, we could not use it if it was expired.

That is one of the reasons that I always have an in date pen for each of my children, plus I can't leave them at churches, camps, classes etc. without an in date pen. But both my Dr. and pharmacist friend recommend keeping the old pens at home for a few years past the expiration for a 'just in case'.

My dr. takes our old pens and either disposes with their needles, or sometimes he uses them to teach boy scouts how to give shots in a dummy.

When we've purchased the two pack pens, we always get the practice pen.

Dawn

solidwoods · #22 05/06/10, 09:48 AM

Stings/bites/poison plants- put ammonia on it asap.
A product called Bite stick is available. It's ammonia in an ink pen type dispenser.
jim

QuiltingLady2 · #23 05/06/10, 09:52 AM

My son is allergic to peanuts and peanut products. So an epi is carried at all times.

As to when you use your epi that is first consult w/your Dr.

In our case if he has even the slightest reaction he uses the pen. We have been in the hospital too many times and too many times close to death to wait.

I don't know how fast you react. Make sure thought that if you do use your epi that you visit your Dr. right away or the hospital. And keep that epi cool.

Ode · #24 05/07/10, 01:00 AM

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Originally Posted by solidwoods

Stings/bites/poison plants- put ammonia on it asap.
A product called Bite stick is available. It's ammonia in an ink pen type dispenser.
jim

Ammonia does absolutely nothing for allergic reactions.