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In reply to the discussion: Why the People of India walked out [View all]She/we knew the dangers and she always went to er if things seemed to be progressing. There were times when she would just have a few hives or itchy hands or arm pits and it never got worse than that. She could tell when it was going to keep going. When I said she 'only' had swollen tongue etc, I didn't mean that it actually got that far without her going in. And if I remember right, at that time it was recommended to her to take benedryl to slow reactions until she could get to hospital. These episodes that I was around for were between like 1980 (when I met her) and early 1990s, after those years I think she was so careful that she was able to avoid any of her forbidden foods, because there were no hospital incidents after that time.
She never had an epi pen and I can't say why. One of my grandsons carries an epi-pen for bee sting allergy and yes, they are expensive!
Sounds like your incident was really bad! Scary!