How to recognize and give first aid to severe allergic reactions that can be life-threatening?

How to recognize and give first aid to severe allergic reactions that can be life-threatening?

How to recognize and give first aid to severe allergic reactions that can be life-threatening? How to recognize and give first aid to severe allergic reactions that can be life-threatening?

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 9th (Reporter Tian Xiaohang) August 9-15, 2021 is China's sixth "China Allergy Prevention Week".
This year's theme is "Healthy China Action to Prevent and Prevent Severe Allergic Reactions
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" In the "China Allergy Prevention Week" charity event held by Peking Union Medical College Hospital and other units on the 8th, authoritative experts said that severe allergic reactions can be life-threatening, and every country’s people should understand first aid knowledge for severe allergic reactions

Yin Jia, professor of the Allergy Department of Peking Union Medical College Hospital and president of the Allergy Physician Branch of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, introduced that severe allergic reaction is a rapid and life-threatening systemic allergic reaction, and its clinical features are fatal respiratory obstruction or Circulatory system failure, some patients may have no skin symptoms and circulatory symptoms
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The incidence of severe allergic reactions is 50 to 120 cases per 100,000 people per year, among which the incidence of children is 1 to 670 cases per 100,000 people per year

What are the clinical symptoms of severe allergic reactions? According to reports, after exposure to a certain allergen, patients usually develop skin itching, flushing, wind rash, edema, or difficulty breathing, wheezing, hoarseness, throat edema, abdominal cramps, nausea, and vomiting within 30 minutes.
, Blurred vision, fainting, decreased blood pressure, loss of consciousness, incontinence, respiratory and circulatory failure, and even death
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"These symptoms can appear in part or in all; they can start from the initial skin symptoms and rapidly develop into fatal asphyxia or circulatory system failure within a few minutes
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" Yin Jia introduced that 90% of patients first have skin mucous membranes.

"To deal with severe allergic reactions, treatment is the key and prevention is the foundation
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" Yin Jia said that adrenaline is the first-line drug of choice for the treatment of severe allergic reactions, and timely application can save lives