Heddle Essays

Blood serves a vital role in the survival of humans. The importance of blood is seen during situations that demand the transfusion of blood or specific blood components. Surgeries, deliveries and emergency accidents are examples of situations that may demand blood transfusion or hemotherapy. An adequate supply of blood units is important in blood banks for them to be able to deliver its function. For the past years, blood transfusion has become a common practice within hospitals. History of blood

ABSTRACT Anaphylactic shock is an extreme lethal allergy to certain foods, medications, or insect bites. It is an allergic reaction that can involves all systems in the body. Rapid intervention is very important because the patient may suffer from hypotension, loss of consciousness and death. This case report will describe a lady who presented with acute generalized body itchiness associated with difficulty in breathing and near fainting episode and was then diagnosed to have anaphylactic shock.