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> They are understood to have had an anaphylactoid reaction, which tends to involve a skin rash, breathlessness and sometimes a drop in blood pressure. This is
by mcintyre1994 6y ago
> They are understood to have had an anaphylactoid reaction, which tends to involve a skin rash, breathlessness and sometimes a drop in blood pressure. This is not the same as anaphylaxis which can be fatal.
From the BBC article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55244122 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55244122
As someone who carries an epi-pen after experiencing anaphylaxis that distinction makes a big difference to what we're talking about here.
- TillE 6y agoGood bet that it's treatable with just antihistamines, going by my experience with systemic (non-anaphylactic) food allergy reactions, which display similar symptoms.
- Panoramix 6y agoAnaphylactoid reactions can kill you just as well as anaphylaxis. "Anaphylactoid reactions are defined as those reactions that produce the same clinical picture with anaphylaxis but are not IgE mediated, occur through a direct nonimmune-mediated release of mediators from mast cells and/or basophils or result from direct complement activation" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3209676/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3209676/
- morpheuskafka 6y agoThis is interesting, I have never heard of this. I thought all food/drug allergies (as opposed to environmental allergies) were IgE-mediated.