... and this is their findings. My doctor lately told me that I couldn't possible be allergic to it and he prescribed me a proair inhaler and about 2 hours after using it I broke out in an itchy rash that spread across my body. Just wondering if my allergist is right or my doctor
As a child I found out that I am alergic to epinephrine. I went to an allergist about 20 years ago?
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- 5 Mar 2011 by duckywater
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- skin rash, epinephrine, doctor
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DzooBaby7 Mar 2011
I agree with the Dr who said you cant be allergic to epinephrine. Epinephrine is basically the same thing as adrenaline your body makes naturally. Epinephrine is used to counteract severe anaphylactic allergic reactions. Are you sure they said you were allergic to epinepherine and not something like pseudoephedrine or ephedrine. Ephedrine is different from epinephrine. They used to use ephedrine for asthma years ago. It does sound like you are allergic to albuterol if you broke out after using ProAir.
Mary6320097 Mar 2011
May I ask if you have food allergies? I have Asthma & have used albuterol as prescribed by my doctor. It seemed to make my breathing more labored. I was reading prevention & saw an ad for Advair & read that if you are allergic to milk proteins (as I am) using Advair may be deadly as it actually closes the airways with this allergy. Well, went to the doc & he starts to give me Advair, & I pull the warning page. Now he's an allergy & Asthma doctor, but he didn't know this either. So he said he would give me a samle of Spiriva(sp) I got home read the prescribing info; same dang thing! If you are allergic to milk proteins, do not use this product. This is actually what got me started on this site! I had asked for theopolin(sp again) which I took in pill form years ago & it really helped. His answer was " well, it's kind of old fashioned"! DUH, but it helped! So now I am without anything. I have tons of allergies.
ElizaJane237 Mar 2011
Sounds like a visit to another allergist is in order to do some testing to find out just what you are actually allergic to. May I suggest you go to a very large, regional hospital, tertiary-level hospital. They tend to test for things that the average allergy clinic doesn't test for. The average clinic is designed to treat what the 'average' patient is allergic to - yours sounds like an unusual one. Who knows? best to find out before you are in an emergency situation. Best wishes to you.
madhatter...7 Mar 2011
Hi:
Don't let the doctors tell you what you are not allergic to! I have gone to the dermatologist every six months for many years, for complete body checks on my black moles. Every time, they would need to remove one or more of them, and, because of the chance of melanoma, they had to 'cut' them out and biopsy them (not freeze them off).
For years, they would give me Lydocaine (sp?) to 'numb' the area. Then, either as I was driving home or later in the day, I would get a really woozy out of body feeling, and the next day STILL feel out of it.
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People are not usually allergic to novacaine either but if they add epinephrine in the lidocaine (which they most certainly do at the dentist office-it helps control bleeding) you can have sensitivities to this. Many people c/o their heart racing and feeling very strange. You are right that it is not an allergy, it is a sensitivity. Allergy means rash or anaphylactic response like difficulty breathing, swelling of the lips, tongue, face. Why would you use Saline? Might as well have nothing and avoid the stick!
My sister actually IS allergic to the novocaine or whatever else they use in the dentist's office. She started to go into anaphalactic (sp?) shock when they gave it to her! Since she is the 'healthy' one in our family, she never thought to ask them for the NAME of what they gave her--so that she could put a note in her wallet, in case of emergency! She said they put a note in her file... then I asked her what would happen if she had to change dentists!
(She's not going to worry about that until/unless she needs to. Oh, to be that blase about my health issues... :)