“Your preventive testing makes no sense”: employee ‘vive le vélo’ gets shock after wasp sting. How do you recognize a dangerous allergic reaction?

It almost went wrong for an employee of the VRT program ‘Vive Le Vélo’. During the recordings of the program, he was stabbed by a wasp and received an anaphylactic shock. He had to go to the hospital urgently. How big is the chance that you will go into shock after a wasp sting and what should you do when it happens? Allergy specialist Guy Brusselle (UZ Gent) explains. “Even people who used to get stabbing without problems can show a severe response years later.”

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