Anaphylaxis, step by step
Educational reference for people trained or carrying an auto-injector.
- Recognise itBreathing difficulty, swelling of throat or tongue, widespread rash, sudden collapse.
- Use the auto-injectorOuter mid-thigh, through clothing if needed. Follow the device's instructions.
- Call emergency servicesSay the word anaphylaxis. Every case needs hospital assessment.
- Lie them flat, legs raisedSitting up if breathing is difficult. Never stand them up.
- Second dose after 5 minutesIf no improvement and a second injector is available.
Critical
- Never stand or walk someone in anaphylaxis
- Adrenaline before antihistamines
- Symptoms can return hours later
Educational reference only. Anyone at risk should carry two injectors and have a personal allergy action plan.
Questions about the Anaphylaxis poster
- What’s on the Anaphylaxis poster?
- 5 numbered steps, with a full worked run-through. Educational reference for people trained or carrying an auto-injector. Recognise it — Breathing difficulty, swelling of throat or tongue, widespread rash, s…; Use the auto-injector — Outer mid-thigh, through clothing if needed. Follow the devic…; Call emergency services — Say the word anaphylaxis. Every case needs hospital assessm…; Lie them flat, legs raised — Sitting up if breathing is difficult. Never stand them up.; Second dose after 5 minutes — If no improvement and a second injector is available.. Educational reference only. Anyone at risk should carry two injectors and have a personal allergy action plan.
- Who is the Anaphylaxis poster for?
- Anaphylaxis belongs to the Body & health section rather than to a school year, because health is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning first aid can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Anaphylaxis poster?
- Adrenaline first, then call. Not the other way round, and never wait to see if it improves. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Anaphylaxis belongs on the wall where that health work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Anaphylaxis?
- Bleeding & Burns, Burn Depth and Choking sit alongside Anaphylaxis in the Body & health section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Bleeding & BurnsBurn DepthChoking
- Is the Anaphylaxis poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Anaphylaxis downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Body & health section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Anaphylaxis poster print at?
- Anaphylaxis is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Anaphylaxis loses nothing.Printing guide
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