What is the scariest allergic reaction you've ever had or seen?

I had an allergic reaction to penicillin about 20 years ago. I got bit by fire ants in Florida and went to the hospital. They gave my penicillin and my throat closed off, I could barely breathe. It was very scary.

My daughter and I went over to my aunt's house and she has 3 dogs inside her very small apartment. Two of them shed, very badly and they like to get all in people's faces. Well anyway, we were only at my aunt's for about 5 minutes before my daughter starts breaking out in hives and scratching. We were there for a very short period of time but by the time we left, her eyes were nearly swollen shut. She wasn't having trouble breathing so I gave her some benadryl. Within a few minutes, she was fine. We haven't been back to my aunt's house since.

well the scariest experience which I had is about 5 years ago when a medicine which was prescribed by the doctor for cold reacted and after taking the tablet I just couldn't move my neck..it would on its own tilt to the right and I just couldn't help it..its a bit difficult to express what I felt at those moments but it was for sure one of the scariest moments in my life so far..

i have seen my uncle suffering from an eye allergy that was horrible

For me it was a few years ago. I had tis terrible itch in my back and i started scratching my back. it soothed me down. But soon later the itching started again and there were red spots all over my body. I couldn't tolerate it and felt as if i was going crazy. Thankfully it all settled down within an hour and the spots disappeared. it was quite an experience

I had once, when we were out on the beach, then we drank this "gin".. and after sometime i just had rashes all over.

I am allergic to wasp and bee stings but the worst reaction I had was to penicillin My face and hands swelled up and I couldn't breathe it was so scarry. I have asthma so this didn't help.

Sorry never seen one or had one which is good for me lol.

My husband who is allergic it seems to almost everything but poison ivy had a reaction to a pill the doctor gave him. He had gotten a hairline fracture in his jaw playing basketball and the doctor gave him an anti inflamatory medicine. My husband took one pill and later in the day he started having a reaction similar to what happens when he has gotten near fish. He started breaking out in hives, his eyes started swelling shut and then his throat started swelling shut. Eating fish would do this to him as well but he sure as heck hadn't eaten any. So we figured that it was the pill since it was the only new thing he had taken. I rushed him to the hospital where they injected him with seven shots of heperin. This is used to jumpstart patients hearts. They did it to get the medicine out of his body. His poor heart was racing so fast but that is what they wanted. the Doctor showed me what the problem was. My husbands uvala at the back of his throat had swollen so big it was cutting off his air. Doctor said if it had been any longer then they would have done a trachiotamy on him. Never want to go thru that again.

We do not have to trust nobody fully, much less in the material that exists in the InterNet. I know many cases that the people if medicate in the InterNet, this is not trustworthy, therefore a doctor is not following the treatment. Therefore very he is aricado to make something thus

I was having a severe fever and I felt like vomitting and the doctor gave me a pill. After half an hour of having the pill my lower part of the jaw started moving towards the left by some unknown force .In about 5 mins it shifted by 1.5 cm Imagine your jaw becoming disproportionate by 1.5 cm. I was scared and called the doctor.he said its an allergic reaction and the gave me an injection .After 1 hour the jaw started becoming normal and finally it returned to normal

i have a very scary allergy, im allergic to nuts, and i have never personally gone into anaphelactic (i dont know how to spell it sorry) shock, but its very possible i will one day if i ingest any sort of nut..when i was little they used to make me extremely sick and then as i got older i had stroke like symptoms (weird) and the doctor is very wary that it may worsen as i get older..i am going to get an epi pen but i think i would be way to scared to use it especially if i was having this shock for the first time..it scares me alot

I found out that I am allergic to Terbutaline. It is used to stop premature labor. I was 5 months pregnant with my daughter and started going into labor. The doctor gave me the Terbutaline in an IV and as a pill and left the room. A few minutes later I started convulsing and turning blue. My husband frantically left the room to find someone. After that I don't remember much but waking up with an oxygen mask on my face and some throw up on my chest. I had to endure Magnesium Sulfate for preterm labor---which is not very fun to say the least. I am also allergic to the clear tape that the hospital uses to tape the IV to your skin.

Whenever I became sick and needed antibiotics I always took the same ones then one time I got sick and my doctor prescribed the same antibiotics I always took then I started to itch a few days later. It got worse so I thought it was another medicine I was taking. Pretty soon my entire body started to swell and I mean my whole body, I looked like I had gained a lot of weight overnight. I went to the ER and they told me I had developed an allergy to the antibiotic. It took ten days for all of the swelling and red patches to go away. I now never assume that just because I have had something before and been fine it doesn't mean it won't bother me this time.

mine was sometime last year after i ate a lobster in a very posh restaurant one evening in Dubai. it was expensive in more ways than one ... as i was eating just a second bite and trying the third one, i felt uncomfortable, got itching in my mouth, tongue, and throat, but since my husband is not at all the sensitive kind and makes a scene shouting at me in public, i tried to eat a bit more, not realising how horrible it was going to be. he was enjoying his food, and even after i told him i was very sick, he refused to accept or do anything. i felt the inside of my mouth swelling up, my tongue, the inside of my throat and chest all swelling, and found it difficult to swallow or breathe. i just wanted to go away, to see a doctor, as soon as possible. with my reluctant husband, i got to land in a hospital after about 2 hours, vomiting on the way, suffering severe stomach ache, headache and breathlessness. with the careless attitude of my partner and the condition i was in, i was really scared that day, worrying about my son, and my mom. later i learnt that if lobster and such -exotic though - seafood is not cooked well, they cause such allergy. i was treated by a very nice doctor at the A&E of a hospital that night, and i felt better after about 5 hours. it WAS an ordeal. so, be sure of yourself and the food before you try such seafood.

i have a sever allergy towards dust...i start sneezing my head out once some dust particles enter my nostrils

i am very allergic to antibiotics...i start getting pimples withing a fortnight...

sorry i never had allerge.

Once my friend had an allergic reaction. She was having common cold & cough for which she visited a doctor & got some medicines prescribed. After taking those medicine, she suddenly had reaction that too at night. She was not able to breath. Then, immediately she was hospitalized. Her condition was really bad as well as ours after seeing her condition.

a development of ulcerative colitis, which according to modern medicine's best guess is a severe food allergic reaction. Having your immune system regularly attacking your intestines is no fun.