How can I avoid panicking if my child has a severe allergic reaction?

Panic is contagious; calm is catching. Calm leads to effective management. The most important thing to remember about allergic emergencies is that they are preventable, so managing the disease is the most important preparation you can make.

However, while emergencies are preventable, they do happen. When they do, the allergic child becomes the sole object of the parents' attention, particularly if there's a trip to the emergency room involved. The parents disappear with the sick child, while the siblings stay with the neighbors, wondering if they're ever going to see brother and sister again, or if the ambulance will crash.

This is a time for the imagination to run wild, or if it happens often enough, to say, "Here we go again." Resentment builds. Bad thoughts about the sick child start to intrude.

Guilt alternates with anger. At the first opportunity, call the well children to reassure them and inform them of the sick child's status. Here, understanding is a key.

The well children should understand what is happening to their brother or sister during the emergency and why it is important to let their parents devote such attention. Their innate sense of responsibility can be cultivated. They should be taught that they are an important part of the team.

They have the responsibility to hold the fort while the parents go off to the hospital. And above all, they should command quality time in equal measure after the emergency is over.

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