When we left the allergist the first time they told us that if our son gets a reaction we should first give him benadryl watch to see if the reaction subsides and if it does not to do anything more. They told us only if we feel the benadryl isn't working should we proceed to administer the Epipen and than take him directly to the ER.
When we went the second time the doctor asked us about his reactions. We told her he was having one every other day at that point, but that we did what we were told. We also told her what the reactions were like, at which point she informed us that we were lucky that nothing had happened to him and that in fact anytime he had an anaphylactic reaction, were two systems were involved, we needed to give him the Epipen and go to the ER. Had we done this we would have known the triage nurses and been at the ER half of our lives. Of course knowing that that's what would have happened had we first been told correctly how to handle the situation we would have gone every time. Nevertheless, we were given false information at first which interestingly enough was later corrected by the same doctor.
Since then we have altered our life style completely in order to protect our son and make sure that he doesn't need to go to the hospital every other day.
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