Filed in archive Allergy Medications , Gadgets and Tools Against Allergies by ruth on September 30, 2008

After 25 years, EpiPen no longer holds the monopoly in epinephrine delivery for people with severe allergic reactions. Pharmaceutical device company Intelliject has come up with EpiCard, the smallest, safest, and most user-friendly auto-injector ever developed.

How is it different from the EpiPen?

The size of a credit card, the easy-to-use EpiCard provides step-by-step voice instructions on how to use the device during a life-threatening emergency. This is especially important because the majority of food allergy fatalities occur outside the home because there's a delay in administering epinephrine.

Find out more about EpiCard here. This product is currently on the last stages of development. It is not yet approved by FDA, but they expect to get approval for the product in 2009. I hope it does, and soon. The more options there are, the better world it will be for people with allergies!

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Response from: DropYourAllergies (10/03/08 12:55pm)

for those with ASTHMA and FOOD Allergy...Pls note.

published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

When lead author Kirsi M. Jarvinen, MD, PhD, and her colleagues from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, studied the histories of 413 children with food allergies, a second dose of epinephrine was needed in nearly one of five cases of food-induced anaphylaxis.

Nearly all the patients who needed multiple doses of epinephrine also suffered from asthma.