Question

A 27-year-old woman with known peanut allergy eats a meal at a restaurant and develops generalised urticaria, throat tightness, wheeze and hypotension (BP 80/50 mmHg). She weighs 70 kg. What is the single most important immediate treatment?

Accepted Answer

Intramuscular adrenaline 0.5 mg into the mid-outer thigh

Answer

Intravenous chlorphenamine

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Intravenous hydrocortisone

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Sublingual salbutamol

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High-dose oral prednisolone

Practice question

A 27-year-old woman with known peanut allergy eats a meal at a restaurant and develops generalised urticaria, throat tightness, wheeze and hypotension (BP 80/50 mmHg). She weighs 70 kg. What is the single most important immediate treatment?