As of January 2016 the future of Auvi-Q is still uncertain. Auvi-Q website refers to voluntary recall of 2015 and mentions possible re-introduction of device. Device has also been dispensed with Narcan. On April 3, 2014
FDA Approves Kaleo’s EVZIO™ for the Emergency Treatment of Opioid Overdose with naloxone. The status of this is currenty unknown. You will note that the EPI and Naloxone divices are identical just words and colors being different. Might this lead to dangerous confusion??

probable death of climber and his dog
from anaphylaxis from bee stings

I just returned from The Appalachian Center for Wilderness Medicine annual AWLS course  on the new River Gorge area in West Virginia. This 5 day trip was spent with several friends, notable Roger Wood, Seth Hawkins, Susan Benesh and Micheal McLaren.

Today I was asked by a bright physician who I respect at a conferance in Canada about signs and symptoms as some of his associates were not sure what was and was not a sy sx. As a futher note he knew, they did not -- So here is our best most current information

Common to rare signs and symptoms of Anaphylaxis with notes.
Generally accepted that if any two are present, your patient is anaphylactic.

Visit the following  UK site and down load handy phrase sheet in several languages

that let you communicate your allergies in Spanish, French, Thai, German,

This useful information comes from a UK competitor to Epipen that has been available

since Sept 2011. It comes in child and adult dose sizes of 0.15 and 0.2

It is an epipen round old style clone with needle self sheathing black cover
comes in new epipen style orange color flip top case, - has same old style safety cap but color is yellow