Storyboard to conceptualize Allergen Intro eLearning module 1.
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Introduction to Allergens
Professor Fresnius A. Egghead, Phd.world-renowned expert on:alien abduction prevention *allergensaluminum foil hat design/construction **prices available upon request
(s-2) cats
Fluffy the Bad Cat(cattus feline badduss)**("feline" is Latin for "thief". Honest.)
(s-3) dogs
Spotty the Good Dog(canis fetchus doofus)*(by the way,"canis" is Cat for "idiot")*a
Professor Egghead, Phd. introduces allergensWe're all familiar with allergies.
(s-3) pollen
Professor:Some of us are allergic to cats. (Professor Egghead doesn't like cats. He sneezes.)
(s-4) dust
Professor:Others, dogs.(Professor Egghead doesn't like dogs. His ex has one. More on that later)
(s-5) ex-spouses
Professor: Still others are allergic to pollen, or to plants like poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac. The list goes on. Milk, eggs, gluten, latex.
Professor: ...dust.... (professor sneezes)
Professor: ...Me, I'm allergic to all of this. I'm allergic to my ex-spouse, too. (pause) I think she was trying to tell me something the day she brought home a cat and emptied the vacuum canister over my head.
(s-6) teenagers and their parents
(s-7) Daddy
(s-8) Cynthia
But enough of my problems. Some medical professionals contend all teenagers are allergic to their parents.....
Mikey
v.o. Hi kids! Mom's home!
The both of them
Yeah? So what! I hate you!
Normalcy
ME TOO!
GET LOST, MOM!
The same researchers theorize teens are allergic to pretty much anything normal or grown up....
Teddy
Suzy
Ralph
Teddy, 16
teenagers
Suzy (shaved her head), 14
antimistamines
Ralph, 15; Suzy's on-again, off-again boyfriend
irritant allergies
Ralph (same Ralph) three months after Suzy dumped him
Luckily, antihistamines - and in the case of teenagers, time - alleviates most allergy symptoms.
Watery eyes, sneezing, runny nose: that's the body's attempt to flush out the allergens Histamines look like this. Those spikes hurt
I'm allergic to everything, pretty much. That's because aliens put something in our water system. This was their spaceship.
more serious
They arrived last year. There were twenty of them plus a Big Guy they called CaptainThat's Captain, on the right there.
bee stings
Three days later Captain took my wife on a trip to Las Vegas. When she came back, she said she wanted a divorce. She was allergic to me, she said.
anaphylaxis
The Greek alphabet. Recognize A, B, and E?
Johnny Bee Good
Johnny Bee Bad
Other allergies are more serious. For example, bee stings. They're much more than an irritants. They can be dangerous. The immune system over-reacts to the bee's. Then all sorts of bad things start to happen.
Shellfish and regular old fish fish
Your blood vessels dilate and become porous. This causes hives, and a rash, and a drop in blood pressure. Your throat begins to swell shut up. It's bad. It's anaphylaxis. In our world, anaphylaxis can be triggered by the residue of a peanut or tree nut.
peanuts, tree nuts
Anaphylaxis is a Greek word with two parts: Ana - which means again or too much, and phylaxis, which means protection. Anaphylaxis is the immune system's overreaction to the threat posed by an allergen. In our case, peanuts or tree nuts.
anaphylaxis
Same holds true when someone who's allergic to shellfish or just plain old fish eats, touches, or smell fish. The body's immune system overreacts.
anaphylactic shock
In our world, peanuts and tree nuts pose a significant risk to our allergic customers. If we don't adhere to certain standards during production, processing, and in the clean areas, a customer can develop anaphylactic shock.
ER visits, hospitalizations, deaths
If we don't follow these standards, the results can be pretty bad. Much worse than my allergic reactions to cats or dogs, or to pollen or plants, or to my discovering my wife ran off with a Martian.
next section: production standards
Not following the peanut and tree nut transfer-prevention practices shown later in this course can lead to anaphylactic shock in our customers. Anaphylactic shock doesn't look like this.
It looks like this. Anaphylactic allergy reactions lead to 30,000 e.r. visits, 2,000 hospitalizations, and 150 deaths annually in the U.S. Let's help prevent that.
As for my wife and her Martian boyfriend: you'll hear from them next. The Martian doesn't say much. He's telepathic and all he does is stare. My wife, Lucretia Heisenweimer, is an expert in allergen control during prodution. And in allergens useful for divorce.
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