Birthday Celebration Ended Badly
A 17 year old, MDA volunteer developed a severe and life threatening reaction to food which he ate at a restaurant while celebrating a friends birthday in central Israel. Upon identifying that he was having an allergic reaction, the boy injected himself with his Epi-pen and immediately called MDA’s 101 emergency call center. MDA EMTs and Paramedics arrived to the scene, provided him lifesaving treatment and evacuated him to the hospital in severe, yet stable condition.
A 17-year-old boy, an MDA volunteer, who celebrated a birthday with his friends at a restaurant, developed a severe allergic reaction with immediate danger to life, after eating food to which he is allergic in a restaurant in the central area. The boy who identifiedt the allergic reaction and regularly holds Epinephrine syringes (for the treatment of acute allergy) injected the substance. His friends, MDA volunteers, also immediately understood the severity of the reaction, assisted him and urgently called an MDA MICU.
MDA medics and paramedics who arrived at the scene provided him with life-saving medical treatment and evacuated him to a hospital when his condition was defined as serious and stable.
MDA paramedic Elhanan Alon and Dr. Yehuda Sabiner, a pediatrician who volunteers at MDA, said:
"We saw the boy sitting in a restaurant having a severe allergic reaction and in immediate danger. Next to him were his friends who said they immediately helped the boy to inject his Epi-pen he was carrying everywhere, but his condition did not improve and later even worsened. We provided him lifesaving treatment for severe allergy conditions, and respiratory assistance, and we evacuated him to the hospital as his condition improved.
There is no doubt that thanks to his friends who quickly called MDA, his life was saved," concluded the paramedic Elhanan.
