'My only hope in sharing all the details is to help someone feel more prepared when it happens for them.'
When 12-year-old Sydney Keiser felt her tongue swelling up and her throat begin to close after eating a Christmas treat on Dec. 16, she knew what needed to happen.
"Epinephrine is the first line treatment for anaphylaxis in both children and adults," Dr. Wesley Sublett, allergist and chair of the, tells TODAY.com."It should be administered as soon as anaphylaxis is recognized to prevent the progression to life-threatening symptoms." The Atlanta-based pre-teen had ingested cinnamon bread from a brand she knows and trusts, and the label did not contain any ingredients that include Sydney’s allergens.
"They gave her Benadryl and a dose of steroids and kept an eye on her and made sure that she was OK and not having another reaction," Keiser says. Keiser says she refilled Sydney’s injector eight days before the incident, as they typically need to be replaced about once a year.
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