{"id":43,"date":"2024-07-07T20:28:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T20:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peanutimmunotherapy.scot\/?p=43"},"modified":"2024-07-11T14:20:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T14:20:26","slug":"anaphylaxis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peanutimmunotherapy.scot\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"Anaphylaxis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Anaphylaxis is an allergic reaction that involves the airways, breathing and\/or circulation &#8211; it is therefore potentially life threatening if it progresses rapidly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It may still look like a typical, mild allergic reaction &#8211; you can still get hives, itching, lip or eye swelling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There may just be a persistent cough, or a wheeze, or you may just feel dizzy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anaphylaxis can therefore look different in different people, at different times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is very difficult to predict if or when it will happen. Most people who have an immediate type allergy to a food are at risk, but anaphylaxis is rare, and severe anaphylaxis requiring hospital treatment even more rare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few things seem to increase the risk:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Having asthma, especially asthma that is tricky to control with medication<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Being a teenager or young adult<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Doing exercise immediately before the reaction<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Being sleep deprived<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Peanut and nut allergies, especially cashew<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The best treatment for anaphylaxis is an injection of adrenaline, from an Epipen for example, as soon as possible after the reaction starts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anaphylaxis is an allergic reaction that involves the airways, breathing and\/or circulation &#8211; it is therefore potentially life threatening if it progresses rapidly. It may still look like a typical, mild allergic reaction &#8211; you can still get hives, itching, lip or eye swelling. There may just be a persistent cough, or a wheeze, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peanutimmunotherapy.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peanutimmunotherapy.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peanutimmunotherapy.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peanutimmunotherapy.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peanutimmunotherapy.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peanutimmunotherapy.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44,"href":"https:\/\/peanutimmunotherapy.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peanutimmunotherapy.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peanutimmunotherapy.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peanutimmunotherapy.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}