I work in child care also, so I feel for you. But you should know not to put your thumb on top of the epi-pen. Also #5, she should know how to use an epi-pen, she works with children!

Ouch... epinephrine in your hand/thumb/fingers... that's a great way to get your hand amputated.

For everyone who is saying that it's reasonable to not know how to use it, there are instructions (and I think as someone stated even ARROWS) on the epi pen, so it's common sense to look at something you're gonna stab into a kid's body, and it's kind of common sense to hold it around the middle. I mean holding it with their HAND over the end, isn't incredibly smart, and it'd also probably be incredibly awkward and hard to do hold that way while trying to inject it. This person SHOULD have had first aid training to begin with if they're going to work such a job, and they clearly didn't, and even so, they lacked not only first aid training, but plain common sense when it came to this situation and risked a kid's life and their own when it very easily could've been avoided, by at least glancing at the darn thing. Epi pens wee made with the idea in mind that whoever is using them most likely won't have medical experience, and may not even have first aid training, and that's why they're created in a way they created to be easy to use and pretty self-explanatory and include simple directions written right there on it. I mean, I know people panic in situations like this, but most first aid training classes go over the importance of remaining calm, and give people the confidence that they know what to do in these situations, so it's clearly the OP's fault by not getting the proper training, and not using their common sense.

Ya...you retard! there are flipping directions right on the thing! Don't be a jackass! That kid could have died while you're freaking out and being STUPID!...go back to school and learn to read and comprehend pictures and arrows! AND BE CALM! panicing does NOTHING but hurt you...Dumbass

WOW, you suck

#135 - Actually, you CAN die from epinephrine overdose, quite easily... it happens. I mean, if you get enough, it can put even a perfectly healthy heart out of commission...

You need to take First Aid training again. shit...you totally ****** up there!! you aren't supposed to give someone else their epinephrine. you only ASSIST in preparing the the injection. shit...i'm seriously in shock.

#142 - Well, small children usually can't give the injection themselves, and sometimes people are in too much distress to give their own, so we're assuming the child was too young or in too much distress to do it themselves, so under those circumstances it is perfectly okay for someone to give it to them, because otherwise, they won't get it at all, but I would suggest that people at least know what they're doing when trying to give a young child an injection...

"epi-pen", for one thing, and for another, f YOUR life? How about the kid who WENT INTO ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK AND YOU WERE TOO PANICKY TO GIVE HIM A LIFE-SAVING SHOT OF ADRENALINE? I SAY HIS LIFE IS ******.

I don't get it, how would pressing on the other end activate the pen? Shouldn't only the tip with the needle be spring-loaded so pushing on the other end shouldn't do anything...