Pedemy · For parents
Allergy plan organizer and reaction diary
Keep clinician instructions, readiness checks and reaction observations together for review. This organizer does not issue an emergency action plan or select medicines.
Use these notes with your child’s clinician. This tool does not diagnose illness, prescribe treatment or confirm that home care is safe.
Possible anaphylaxis: act immediately
Suspect a severe reaction with sudden breathing or swallowing difficulty, tongue or throat swelling, fainting or collapse, or symptoms in several body systems after a possible allergen, such as hives with repeated vomiting. Anaphylaxis can occur without hives. For suspected anaphylaxis, give the child’s prescribed epinephrine immediately if available, following the device instructions, then call local emergency services. If epinephrine is unavailable, call immediately. Do not wait for a rash, a diary entry or an antihistamine to work. Emergency assessment is needed even if symptoms improve.
Use the official medical plan
Keep the current clinician-signed allergy plan with the child’s emergency medicine. Copy instructions here only for organization; the printout is not a prescription or school medication authorization.
Your entries stay in this open page and disappear when it is reloaded or closed. Print a copy if needed. Avoid names and identifying details.
Care reminders
- Antihistamines may help selected mild allergy symptoms, but they do not replace epinephrine for anaphylaxis. Follow the child’s clinician-written emergency plan.
- Testing should follow the reaction history. A positive skin or specific-IgE blood test alone does not prove clinical food allergy. Food IgG panels are not recommended; a diagnostic food challenge belongs in a supervised medical setting, not at home.
- Ask for a clinician-written allergy and anaphylaxis plan when the child is at risk. Caregivers should know the exact prescribed device, where it is kept and how to use it; check expiry dates and share the official plan with school or childcare.