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