New EpiPen Law Could Save Lives

When Dr. Sarah Denny’s son Liam was a toddler, she gave him soy milk.

Liam had been diagnosed with certain food allergies, but had drunk soy milk about 200 times with no problems, Denny said.

But on this particular morning, he started coughing and vomiting, and within a minute, he was unconscious.

Luckily, Denny, a pediatrician who works in the emergency room of Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, had an injectable form of the drug epinephrine. Denny’s husband administered the drug and they rushed Liam to the emergency room, by which time her son had recovered fully.

“If we had not had the auto-injector at home, I do not think he would have survived,” Denny told LiveScience. Read more…

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