Anaphylaxis can strike at any time

[00:00:04]What do you want?

[00:00:07]>> I want to do my hair for now.

[00:00:13]>> Hey Mom, don't forget.

[00:00:15]>> Never in a million years would I have thought that I would be a mom that almost lost her baby the night before she turned three. Or a mom that carries around an EpiPen. All of this started from something my daughter eats quite often. I didn't know you could develop an allergy literally overnight. She started off with a simple cough and I really thought she was playing around because she said the food was spicy and I never add any spice into her food. And from there everything started to happen really fast. She started to vomit and her face turned completely red. So I grabbed her and went straight to the ER.

[00:00:45]I need every parent watching to know to please pay attention because I had no idea what to look for. If your child shows two or more of these signs >> the EpiPen. Two body systems, what does that mean? The skin, so she can have hives, itchy bumpy rashes, or lip swelling. We count that as skin.

[00:01:04]A new cough, that's respiratory. A new cough, she just cough, cough, cough. She didn't have it before and she ate something she's allergic to, that's respiratory.

[00:01:14]She can have GI symptoms, so vomiting or diarrhea or very bad belly pain. So she has two symptoms essentially, right?

[00:01:23]Let's say the lip swelling and a cough, that's enough to use the EpiPen. Okay.

[00:01:28]>> Do not wait. Use the EpiPen if you have one. If you don't, go to the ER immediately. Do not second-guess yourself. Do not wait to see if it gets better. Allergies can develop overnight, even to something your child has eaten a hundred times. I almost lost my baby the night before her birthday. Please don't let that be your story.