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3 year old saves brother's life

Brandi Pople knows all about the allergic reaction that children can have to peanuts. On May 24, her 20-month-old, son Ryan, who is deathly allergic to peanuts, went into anaphylactic shock. His heart stopped and he was not breathing. “I froze when I couldn’t get  a pulse,” says Pople.  “Then my three-year-old son, Alexander, grabbed his brother’s EpiPen and gave it to him in the thigh as his dad had taught him and screamed for his grandma to call 911.” 

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