Question

You are severely allergic to peanuts, so you carry an epipen with you regularly. One day while reaching into your purse, you shoot your epipen into your hand because you hadn’t been storing it properly in its case. Indicate which of the following effects would occur after this accidental injection with epinephrine. Use A = TRUE (would occur due to epinephrine) and B = FALSE (would not occur due to epinephrine).

28. Hypersalivation

29. Decreased blood flow to abdominal viscera

30. Increased blood pressure

31. Pupil constriction

32. Pallor and tremors

33. Tachycardia

Answer 1

True statements are- hypersalivation, increased blood pressure, palllor and tremors, tachycardia.

False statements are- decreased blood flow to visceral organs , pupil constriction.

Epinephrine (aka adrenaline) is a hormone secreted by adrenal medulla. It is called flight and fight hormone because it prepares our body to deal with emergencies.

The effect of this hormone are increase heart rate, increase blood pressure, increase ventilation, dilation of pupil(not constriction) , increased blood supply to organs, increase metabolic rate,hypersalivation and increase glucose breakdown.

All these changes prepares our body to deal with emergency