{"id":118,"date":"2017-01-16T11:25:40","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T11:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcns.scot.nhs.uk\/cyans\/?page_id=118"},"modified":"2024-07-10T15:34:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T14:34:59","slug":"anaphylaxis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/cyans\/families\/allergic-reactions-medication\/what-to-do\/anaphylaxis\/","title":{"rendered":"Anaphylaxis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Anaphylaxis is a fancy word for a severe allergic reaction. In a severe reaction you get breathlessness, wheezing, choking, or you may collapse and lose consciousness. You usually don\u2019t see all these things at the same time, although it\u2019s possible. Severe swelling of lips, eyes, tongue etc can look terrible but is rarely life threatening so we don\u2019t consider it anaphylaxis without the other things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These kinds of reaction are unusual, but can be life threatening. We have particular ways of treating these reactions, including\u00a0adrenaline pens\u00a0(eg EpiPen), but of course it\u2019s better to prevent such reactions ever happening if possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyans.scot.nhs.uk\/families\/allergic-reactions-medication\/what-to-do\/severe-allergic-reaction-anaphylaxis\/\">Please click here for more information on what to do in the case of a severe allergic reaction or anaphylaxis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"nhsuk-card__description\">Anaphylaxis is a fancy word for a severe allergic reaction. In a severe reaction you get breathlessness, wheezing, choking, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":238,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-118","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/cyans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/cyans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/cyans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/cyans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/cyans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/cyans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6685,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/cyans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118\/revisions\/6685"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/cyans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/cyans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}