This nasal spray can treat allergy patients with severe reactions
The nasal spray was approved in the US and has been recommended for approval by EU regulators.
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00:00This new delivery system is the first needleless delivery system for epinephrine.
00:17So what that means for individuals with food allergies and families with food allergies
00:22is that in an already anxiety provoking moment of having this unintended response to an allergen
00:31where emotions are rising and you're worried about the health of yourself or your child
00:36you now don't have to worry about the actual injection causing pain.
00:41Then the way that it's administered is you put it like right up the nose like that
00:47and then this right here you just push that right up.
00:50Because of this it's given me a second chance at life. I can live, I can go out,
00:57I can feel like I'm not being constantly followed by that shadow of death, literally the shadow of death.
01:11Anaphylaxis is a potentially life-threatening reaction and it's dangerous because it can
01:18start out mild and then the symptoms can increase in severity.
01:22Things I start feeling when I have anaphylaxis is usually it goes straight to my stomach like my
01:28if it's ingested it'll go straight to like a weird gurgling and pain. Usually it starts
01:35right here and goes to my upper sternum area and then that's when I start to feel the chest tightness.
01:48you