Benadryl

I thought

you were that guy who shows up when I take too much Benadryl.

Also that guy.

Yes, that's my side hustle.

A friend of mine, he's going to go to a Halloween party tomorrow, and he decided to go with the hat man.

And if you don't know, the hat man is this kind of like urban legend or like a kind of a thing that people have seen, particularly on very high doses of Benadryl, which is in...

Yeah, Benadryl, speaking of that, I have a story related to that as well in a second.

But so what he did, he got himself a coat, of course, like painting himself completely black, red... uh what's it called red contact lenses a hat and then what he did he went online and he showed me he had printed out and made like a box like a big one like a benedrill box you know like the authentic one and he filled it with candies he's gonna go around the party dispensing benedrill to people I bought that one fucking

glorious.

So my mother was just in the States and whenever she's in the States, she likes a, there's a lot of like over the counter shit you can buy.

That's just like straight up banned in Europe, which is a dextromorphin.

So what the active ingredient Benadryl, she bought some off brand Costco.

There's a lot of common medicines that go through this enzyme system.

One of the more common over-the-counter ones is Benadryl.

Oh, yeah.

Benadryl, diphenhydramine, goes through this enzyme system.

So here's what happens.

Kratom goes in.

and what happened was he uh did kratom and who knows what his reasons were if he was trying to get to that dose what makes you tired and sleepy but he also took benadryl

and this is the nobody the door is only one size and not everyone can get through it when you're in the liver enzymes that's exactly right there was

We called oncology.

They said, give me some Benadryl, monitoring him.

If things get worse, give us a call.

Next morning, his face was so swollen.

Without even a warning, they jabbed him in the arm with epinephrine.

He didn't even have time to react.

They shot his IV up with Benadryl and all the adrenaline, he just fell asleep.

I held him in my arms and I just sobbed and sobbed and sobbed.

Two, have baby Zyrtec on hand.

So you could have baby Benadryl.

But what I've heard from multiple people, including myself, allergist and my doctor is they actually prefer baby Zyrtec because baby Benadryl can also be drowsy so right they'd rather you do Zyrtec sure number three is small doses of allergens right so the first time I gave my son like a whole egg I did not need to do that you can give a

tiny little piece and then fourth question for you does that relate to the level of reaction yeah okay

And allergy reactions tend to get worse by exposure.

The longer this episode goes on, the more you and your, well, I'd be gone by this point, just fades away.

And you are a thousand percent sitting at that table, hearing that fucked up speech, going, where is the Benadryl? I got to find my keys and get out of here.

let me say this.

I, what I'm

I mean, obviously, I had strong suspicions because I drugged the dude.

If I had already hit you with

Benadryl, I shouldn't be saying, if I have to drug a man in his own home to escape, there is no world in which I'm asking, am I in danger? I think that I have answered my question, right?

Yeah.

Even in my car, I keep like...

I know that I'm more prone to allergies and things, but, like, I keep Benadryl and everything, like, in my car because I'm like, what if someone, like, doesn't know they have allergies to something? Yeah.

Because, like, you're exposed...

Like, especially when you're doing something new, you're exposed to a lot of different allergens that you're not regularly exposed to that you could be allergic to that you didn't know.

poor team.

Yeah, like take a friggin' Benadryl over there.

But Katrina, where can people find you online?

You can find me at Katrina Owens PR.

Of course, pairing it with alcohol is problematic.

Pairing it with other medicines, even as basic as Benadryl, could be problematic.

So we want to be thoughtful about that.

And teens usually aren't thinking about that when they're drinking energy drinks.