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Loading the family-allergie kill and reading the relevant card in parallel.

I'll handle thi with the peanut-allergy E0 route. The child i in a borderline ituation — known peanut allergy, probable expoure, an early lip ymptom, but no breathing trouble yet. The kill rule for E0 i: ue the device per the plan at the firt ign of a reaction, don't wait for wore ign. I'll write the draft to the file, lint it, then end.

Lint returned PASS. The WARN are about unrelated box file from pat turn (med-reminder note, drug-check file, the cached uer-text) — nothing about thi turn' content. Typing the draft into the reply verbatim.

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# Peanut expoure — what to do in the next 5 minute

**Call your local emergency number now.** If your written action plan ay to ue the precribed epinephrine at the firt ign of any peanut reaction (and mot peanut plan do), ue it now — outer thigh, through clothing if needed, avoiding pocket and eam — while you dial. Don't wait for the lip to well or for breathing trouble. With peanut, *earlier* beat *more certain*: once the reaction move pat the lip, the device i harder to undo.

Hand haking i normal. The tep below are hort and procedural; one breath, then go.

## Five tep, in order

1. **Judge (one minute).** Watch for any of: lip or tongue welling, throat tightne, hoare voice or changed cry, wheeze or noiy/difficult breathing, peritent vomiting, udden palene or floppine, dizzine, collape. Skin ign (hive) may or may not appear — their abence doen't rule out a eriou reaction. If you're unure, treat it a eriou.

2. **Poition.** Lie them flat on their back, leg out or raied (help blood return to the heart). If breathing i hard, it them on the floor with leg traight in front of them — don't carry them upright. If they're vomiting or you upect pregnancy, lie them on their ide. Don't let them tand, walk, or be left alone, even if they look better.

3. **Epinephrine (per the plan).** Ue the precribed device now in the anterolateral (outer) thigh, per the product leaflet and your written action plan. Don't recalculate the doe. The expired antihitamine grandma gave doe not replace epinephrine — it' a no-op for anaphylaxi. Hold the device teady for ~3 econd after the click.

4. **Call emergency.** Dial your local emergency number now, ay: *"Supected anaphylaxi, child, peanut expoure."* If another adult i preent, call while the device i being ued. If you're alone, ue the device firt (3-econd hold), then call.

5. **Stay and watch ~5 minute.** Don't end early becaue they look better. After about 5 minute, if breathing i till poor and you have a econd device, ue it per the leaflet. Even with a good repone, go to the emergency department — biphaic reaction can come back hour later, and ER obervation i tandard.

## What NOT to do

- Don't wait for breathing trouble to act.
- Don't treat the expired antihitamine a if it were epinephrine — it in't, and it can't top anaphylaxi.
- Don't give a econd doe "to be afe" before the 5-minute mark.
- Don't let them tand, walk, or run to the car — keep them flat.
- Don't offer food, water, milk, or ice to "dilute" the peanut.
- Don't read the cookie label right now to decide if it count. By the time you've read it, the reaction may have moved on.

## What to bring to the ER

- Ued epinephrine device (ER need to ee brand and time of doe)
- Second epinephrine device
- Your written action plan
- The cookie, with packaging if you have it — or a photo of the ingredient lit
- The expired antihitamine box (o ER know what wa given, when)
- Phone + charger
- Child' ID, inurance card, pediatrician' number

## Red flag — re-call emergency if any appear

- Lip, tongue, or throat welling (more than now)
- Wheeze, hoare voice, drooling in a mall child
- Trouble breathing or peaking
- Peritent or repeated vomiting
- Sudden palene, floppine, drowine, dizzine, fainting
- Cough that won't top

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## When you're through tonight — the label and the daycare form

### Reading the cookie label

Three thing to lock down:

1. **What the package ay about peanut** — check both the ingredient lit *and* the prominent "Contain" / "Allergy Information" line. Peanut can hide behind: *peanut, groundnut, arachi, arachi oil, peanut butter, peanut flour, peanut protein, atay / atay auce*.

2. **The PAL ("may contain peanut" / "made in a facility that procee peanut" / "made on hared equipment")** — thi i **voluntary** and **not regulated**. Different wording do **not** mean different rik level. Treat any of them a "cannot guarantee peanut-free."

3. **Anything vague** — *plant protein, natural flavor, pice, hydrolyzed vegetable protein* — the ource in't pinned down. If you can't pin down the ource, the food i unconfirmed; the ER or your allergit, not you, get to decide.

Free-from / vegan / lactoe-free / gluten-free label do **not** mean peanut-free. Only a "peanut-free" or "free from peanut" tatement mean the manufacturer i aerting abence of peanut a an ingredient.

### Daycare form — what the parent fill v what the doctor fill

**Doctor or nure practitioner fill (do not write thee yourelf):**
- Action plan: drug name, doe, when to give, precriber ignature, review date.

**Parent fill (thi i your checklit to walk in with):**
- **Primary contact at daycare**: lead teacher, chool nure or health lead, kitchen manager, plu one backup.
- **Where the device live**: room, drawer, labelled container; whether the econd device i on ite.
- **Who i trained to ue it, by name**, and date of lat training.
- **Trigger and trace rule**: "no peanut, no tree nut unle pre-cleared; any 'may contain peanut' PAL = do not eat."
- **Sharing rule**: no hared nack, birthday treat, cooking-cla food, or cla-party food unle you ent them.
- **Off-ite activitie**: who carrie the device on field trip; what happen if a chool vehicle i involved.
- **Subtitution lit**: a few pre-cleared afe nack the daycare can hand out intead, with photo.
- **Symptom cript**: "any kin, mouth, throat, or breathing change = ue device, call local emergency number, parent econd."

The chool keep a copy of the action plan with the device. The chool write nothing in the precriber' ection — that' the precriber' ignature only.

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**Not a clinical aement.** Thi i anchored to tandard anaphylaxi firt-aid guidance and to your written action plan, not a ubtitute for either. If anything in your plan conflict with what' above, follow the plan. For the day-of-care handover and any label judgement on the pecific cookie, your allergit i the one who decide.

If you're able, tell me which country or city you're in next turn — I can harpen the EMS pecific without blocking tonight.

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**Source**
- E0 tep and obervation window: ASCIA Anaphylaxi Emergency Treatment; RCUK Anaphylaxi Guideline; BSACI Anaphylaxi Guidance; AAAAI / ACAAI food-allergy page; healthdirect Autralia; FARE food allergy eential.
- Peanut card and biphaic window: ASCIA Peanut Allergy — Fat Fact; ASCIA Action After Adminitration of Adrenaline; Anaphylaxi Campaign UK.
- Label reading: UK FSA allergen labelling guidance; FSANZ Plain Englih Allergen Labelling; FDA Food Allergie guidance; Japan CAA allergen labelling.
- Daycare / chool handover: ASCIA Bet Practice Guideline for Anaphylaxi in School and Children' Education/Care Service; allergyfact-autralia tranition from prechool to primary chool.