Fun Epinephrin Carriers Help Allergic Children
Fashionable Medical Accessory For Serious Medication
Nov 20, 2008
The carriers can be purchased with designs ranging from robots to princesses for young people, while adolescents who may be self conscious carrying the pens may choose more discreet pouches with belt or leg straps. Functional designs for adults in different fabrics are also now considered hip.
The fashion trend couldn't come at a better time. Amy Branum, a statistician with the CDC National Center for Health Statistics announced that approximately three million American children are known to suffer from food allergies. But venom from bees and wasps can also cause an allergic reaction serious enough to risk anaphylactic shock.
The cuteness of the EpiPen carrier doesn’t eliminate the seriousness of its need. While it’s a leap of faith for all parents to send their youngsters off to school or a play date, worry of an allergic reaction to diagnosed children adds the stress of education and training for administering the potentially lifesaving drug. While school nurses are prepared, the parent on carpool duty may have never seen the EpiPen before.
The Center for Disease Control reports that over 90% of allergic food reactions are caused by eight food types: milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, fish, shellfish, soy, and wheat. Parents know that any of these items could be unintentionally ingested by even the most knowledgeable child.
Anaphylaxis is a severe whole-body allergic reaction. Epinephrine in an EpiPen will give a child 10 to 15 minutes to get further medical attention for a situation that could induce anaphylactic shock. A severe reaction can show symptoms of low blood pressure, projectile vomiting, hives, swelling of the face or throat that can block the airway, abnormal heart rhythms and fluid in the lungs.
An adorable EpiPen carrier will not overcome a youngster’s anxiety of injections, but once the child has experienced the relief given by the treatment, they tend to lose their fear of the pen.
A carrier targeting the childs' favorite activity will fight nicely in an Easter basket, and receiving it as a gift may make the child more eager to use it.
Fashion Demand for Epi Pen CarriersIt doesn't take a lot of work to craft a carrier for your child, but for the fashion minded youth it purchased one may be better received.
The website KozyEpi offers single and duo pen carriers with various designs, in addition to puffer pouches that can be ordered with a neck strap, clip or buckle to assure it is always with your child.
Allergy Haven offers school bundle kits. The carriers are easy to find because they have become so popular that typing EpiPen carriers into any search engine will bring pages of results.
With an estimated 3.9% of children needing to carry life saving single dose epinephrine, awareness is growing among adolescents. Parents are learning that their own allergy free offspring want these cute little EpiPen carriers for their own stuff.
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