Warning: EpiPen May Cause Serious Injuries In Kids, Seattle Children’s Hospital Study

Squirming kids may be badly hurt by the needles of epinephrine injectors like EpiPens, according to a set of case studies collected by U.S. doctors.

“Young children typically don’t have the cognitive ability to hold still ‘for their own good’,” said lead author Dr Julie Brown, an emergency physician at Seattle Children’s Hospital, who noted that injuries typically happen when children move during the injection.

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