From the article: "'“Dad, maybe you just don’t make enough epi?” asked my son, who was 9 years old at the time.'" "epi" = "epinephrine". Indeed a possible expl

From the article: "'“Dad, maybe you just don’t make enough epi?” asked my son, who was 9 years old at the time.'" "epi" = "epinephrine". Indeed a possible explanation! FWIW a cup of coffee is excellent emergency treatment for anaphylactic shock: https://www.faroutfirstaid.com/blog/anaphylaxis-coffee-time https://www.faroutfirstaid.com/blog/anaphylaxis-coffee-time http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/781053.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/781053.stm For those worried about "coffee allergy" I would note that there are less than a handful of recorded cases of anaphylactic shock due to caffeine - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4313757/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4313757/