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am I wrong in saying there is epinephrine in an epipen, and epinephrine is just adrenaline? Because can we just throw someone going through anaphylaxis on a roller coaster, or force them to watch a scary movie? y'know giving them the adrenaline they need to outlast the reaction. Pic unrelated

>> No.15271727

now that is a good question which deserves further testing

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No, you aren't wrong.

No, you wouldn't want to risk doing something stupid to try to somehow get a sufficient endogenous epi release that would overcome the reaction as the longer you delay treatment with a sufficient dose of epi, the more you're risking more harm/bad outcome - aka death.

There is probably data out there re: how much adrenaline gets released into the blood stream during certain activities, I have no idea what the numbers are - but if you can find the numbers - you can then compare them to how much epi is being injected with an epi pen/how high that puts the serum levels up.

I guess if you ever find yourself in the middle of the wilderness, hours and hours from medical help, and someone deathly allergic to bee stings gets stung and you don't have an epi pen - knock yourself out and try to scare the shit out of them - to save their life... BUT **a key flaw in this theory is**... don't you think they are already gonna be pretty damn scared, since they are expecting to die in the middle of nowhere with you because they didn't bring an epi pen?

FYI, epi pens are super expensive but epinephrine is super cheap - people could just have vials of epi and syringes at home but since most people are dumb/get even more dumb in an emergency, we have to go with overpriced patented auto-injectors.