From:
sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2005-05-03 00:45:29 UTC
Subject: RE: shots
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <1076081.1115081129900.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
I'm not sure that is what would happen, but more that the level of reaction could be lowered.
The reason I am more sanguine about this part of the question in the last more than three years is because I have been getting allergy shots, and I am a person with a history of anaphylactic reactions including to the allergy shots. They simply never would allow me to have my shots unless I had taken my meds beforehand, and we continued the shots until a couple of weeks ago when I finally had a delayed reaction early the next day. All of my systemic reactions to the shots before had been in 15 or fewer minutes. The meds I have to have taken before are my antihistamine and an asthma preventative (and of course I carry epi and others).
So, since the professionals who deal with these reactions in humans all the time are not only fine about having meds on-board before exposure to an injected allergan but actually insist on it, I suspect that your worry about delay may not be a valid one. BTW, it's the same question I had years back. :-)