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A severe allergic reaction that can rapidly impair breathing and blood pressure, becoming life-threatening within minutes.
means A severe, whole-body allergic reaction that can rapidly affect breathing and blood pressure and turn life-threatening within minutes.
from Coined in the early 1900s from Greek ana- ('against' or 'backward') plus phylaxis ('protection, guarding'). Researchers studying immunity had expected repeated small doses of a substance to build up protection, like a vaccine — instead, in some cases, a second dose triggered a violent reaction. So they named the phenomenon the opposite of protection: anaphylaxis, protection turned against the body.
- speed
- can strike within minutes of exposure
- mechanism
- mast cells dump histamine, airways and blood vessels collapse
- fix
- epinephrine, not antihistamines, is the actual save
- name origin
- greek for against protection, the opposite of immunity