OCR story about how California new stock Epi Pen law was a needed bill to become a law.
Okay, didn't write this myself, however a subject near and dear to my heart. New state law will require schools to stock EpiPens for students with allergies Orange County schools are gearing up to supply the epinephrine auto-injectors used to treat anaphylaxis . BY DEEPA BHARATH / STAFF WRITER Published: Dec. 16, 2014 Updated: 7:47 p.m. Juliet Larsen was only 15 months old when she took one bite of peanut butter. In less than two minutes, her heart stopped beating. “We took her to the hospital,” Louise Larsen, her mother, said about that day in 1997. “We almost lost our daughter.” Louise Larsen has been one of the most vocal advocates on social media and through her blog, parentsofkidswithaseverepeanutallergy.blogspot.com , to make EpiPens mandatory in public schools. The devices are essentially auto-injectors that use epinephrine to quickly treat anaphylaxis, a severe, whole-body allergic reaction to allergens such as f...
