The highly allergic should keep an epinephrine shot close by

Friday, September 4, 2009 - 19:56 in Health & Medicine

For some, a bee sting can be fatal, so learning to self-administer the injections -- and having one on hand when traveling -- can be a life saver. Every few weeks, I hand a prescription for an injection of epinephrine -- the world's most precious elixir during a major allergic attack -- to at least one allergic traveler. Say, to a person with...

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