Pharmacist’s importance in Anaphylaxis | Severe Allergic Reaction - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Title: Pharmacist’s importance in Anaphylaxis | Severe Allergic Reaction


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Pharmacists importance in Anaphylaxis Severe
Allergic Reaction
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Severe Allergic Reaction Anaphylaxis Our immune
system protects us from foreign substances or
allergens by producing histamine. This reaction
to an allergen is known as an allergic reaction
that causes inflammation, sneezing, or coughing.
Some allergic reactions are mild but some are
severe and life-threatening. These
life-threatening allergic reactions are termed
anaphylaxis. Anaphylaxis reactions are rapid and
cause damage within seconds or minutes of
exposure to an allergen. Rarely the reaction may
occur days after the encounter with the allergen.
The reaction may occur in phases with a gap of
around 12 hours known as a biphasic
reaction. These reactions are triggered due to
food like milk, eggs, fish, crustacean shellfish,
wheat, soy, peanuts, or tree nuts, venom from
insect stings like bees, wasps, and ants, or
medication like antibiotics. People with allergic
skin conditions or asthma are at high risk of
anaphylaxis. Common signs of anaphylaxis are
itchy or raised skin, red skin rash swollen
eyes, lips, hands, and feet feeling lightheaded
or faint swelling of the mouth, throat, or
tongue that can lead to breathing and swallowing
difficulties wheezing abdominal pain nausea
and vomiting sudden collapse or unconsciousness.
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• Ways by which Pharmacy can help during
  Anaphylaxis
• An authorized pharmacist can be a significant
  part of your medical services group. Pharmacists
  work with patients, insurance agencies, and drug
  organizations consistently. They assume a vital
  part in further developing admittance to drugs
  and tracking down ways of bringing down costs.
• Pharmacists have an abundance of information that
  can help patients past filling prescriptions.
  Their direction ought to not the slightest bit
  supplant the guidance of your primary care
  physician.
• Instruction about correctly using the prescribed
  medication Your pharmacist will provide details
  about the prescribed medication, including
• The dosage to use.
• When to take the medication.
• How the medication works.
• Ways the medication will help you.

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• The ways Pharmacist would Identify Anaphylaxis
• Symptoms of anaphylaxis regularly start within 5
  to 30 minutes of coming into contact with the
  allergen to which you are unfavorably
  susceptible. At times it might require over an
  hour for you to see anaphylactic symptoms.
• Symptoms that affect more than one part of the
  body and may include
• Red rash, with hives/welts, that are normally
  irritated (It is possible to have an extremely
  unfavorably susceptible response without skin
  symptoms.)
• Enlarged throat or enlarged region of the body
  (It is possible to have an extremely unfavorably
  susceptible response without skin symptoms.)
• Wheezing
• Passing out
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