Talk about adding insult to injury. A Virginia woman in the throes of a life-threatening allergic reaction was told to cough up hundreds of dollars before a nurse would administer an EpiPen. “I asked, ‘If I didn’t have the money, would you have just let me die?’” Stephanie Rowell recalled in an interview with KFF … Read more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved ARS Pharmaceuticals’ nasal spray as the first needle-free emergency treatment for potentially fatal allergic reactions. The spray, which will be sold under the brand name neffy, is seen as an alternative to EpiPen and other autoinjectors that are filled with epinephrine, a life-saving drug used by people at … Read more
A TikTok influencer is sparking concern for not using her EpiPen while experiencing a “life-threatening allergic reaction” — instead, she continued to film. Shivaika Sewlal, 22, has gained hundreds of thousands of social media followers by posting videos sharing how she lives with over 40 allergies, eczema and asthma. She recently went viral with a … Read more
She was but a prick away from death. Ploy Ling, 23, thought she was going to die after she had a severe allergic reaction to an allergy test. “I had a moment where I thought I was going to die because I was shaking and was like, ‘this [isn’t] normal,’” she told Kennedy News. The … Read more