Video: Symptoms of Anaphylaxis

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Symptoms of anaphylaxis include hives, high heart rate, and shortness of breath. Find out more about the symptoms of anaphylaxis in this free video.

Video Transcript

Now, we're going to get in to the symptoms of anaphylaxis. So, anaphylaxis is just an extreme allergic reaction. So, the symptoms can vary from skin rash to itching, to difficulty breathing. I'm going to start by just giving you a picture here of a skin rash. This is rather extreme skin rash as you can see. Uh, it's spread upon his neck and everything. Now, the symptoms of anaphylaxis is that you want to be very aware of are once that are going, that may lead to severe injury and possibly death. As noted here, loss of consciousness will be a big one, hives as noted in the picture earlier and then you have the biggest concern with anaphylaxis is that the person is going to swell up the airway and they are not going to be able to breath. And when that's start to happen, it?s a very scary thing, and it needs an emergency treatment immediately. So, that's you're going to start hearing the person with difficulty breathing, you might see their rashes and then uh there's also going to be some swelling, a lot of swelling that occurs. At the first sight of any of these symptoms it?s very important that you want to call the emergency number immediately. For most people in America, it's going to be 911. It's very important to get emergency care as quickly as possible in this situation. Once anaphylaxis starts very, very it moves very fast and requires emergency treatment as soon as possible.

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Symptoms of Anaphylaxis

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