Allergies

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Allergy Awareness Quiz

Test your knowledge about allergies and learn essential safety tips with our engaging quiz. This quiz is designed for anyone looking to understand the importance of managing food allergies effectively.

10 Multiple Choice Questions
Learn about common allergens
Discover what to do in case of an allergic reaction

10 Questions2 MinutesCreated by ManagingAllergy92

You and your family have gone out for a meal. You're not sure what food is suitable for your allergy so wonder what to do next. Should you:

Tell the waiter / waitress that you have a food allergy so that they can get you a suitable menu and inform the chef?

Take your epipen before eating so it will stop a reaction from happening?

Just get a water and wait until you get home to eat?

Guess what items will have none of your allergen in?

What are the most common allergens in UK children?

Gluten, celery and fruit?

Milk, egg and nuts?

Milk, mustard and sesame?

Celery, shellfish and eggs?

If you or someone you know is having an anaphylaxis, what should you do?

Inject the person with their adrenaline auto-injector (if they have one and know how to use it), and then call 999?

Start CPR?

Ask them to drink water whilst sitting upright>

Call you friends and ask them what to do?

How long does it take before an auto-injector works?

They works within seconds of being used?

They take an hour to work?

They work within a few minutes?

They don't work until the ambulance arrives?

What is the time frame from being exposed to your allergen and onset of symptoms?

Within a second?

From 2 minutes to 2 hours?

About 7 hours?

2 days?

How does your auto-injector work?

It finds the allergen in your stomach and absorbs them?

It flushes all of the allergen out of your body?

It constricts all your blood vessels to increase your blood pressure and reduce swelling?

It makes all your blood vessels wider so blood can flow where it wants?

When you experience anaphylaxis you should lay flat - what are the exceptions to this rule?

If you've got a bad back?

If you don't want to lay on your back as you don't want to ruin your clothes?

If you're pregnant, having difficulty breathing or are unconscious?

If you've had an allergic reaction before?

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