Anaphylaxis Home First Aid

Video Transcript

"We are going to cover some of the treatment that you can do at home before medical personnel arrives or if you don't have access to medical personnel. If for instance you are out in the wilderness and don't have access to medical personnel we are going to cover a few things you can do to prevent the spread of anaphylaxis. Now the first step you are going to take in treating anaphylaxis is you want to find out what is causing this reaction and remove it from the person. If it is a bee sting, you want to try and get the stinger out. If it something that they ate you want to make sure that, they don't eat anymore of it. If it is something that they are breathing, you want to try and remove them from that atmosphere. If you have an allergic reaction yourself be very cautious, as to how you treat this person. You are not going to want to jeopardize your own safety to help this person. Because if you end up having an allergic reaction at the same thing it is not going to be doing either of you any good. So the first step is to remove the substance that is causing the reaction. Identify the substance and remove it. Another treatment that you can do at home is to give Benadryl or an antihistamine tablet. This will keep the reaction from getting any worse. It does not stop what has already occurred but it stops the histamine release and keep it from getting any worse. Another medication that can be give at home is that if the person experiencing the reaction has been given an inhaler with Albuterol in it. That's something that can help with the breathing. So if they start having difficulty breathing they have been prescribed and inhaler. You can use this inhaler. It's not recommended that you use someone else's inhaler. So it is only recommended to use if it has been prescribed to the person having the reaction."