Laura, we have always been told the same thing - don’t worry about too much, you can’t overdose - and it is better to give too much than not enough.  Last summer Kristin wasn’t feeling well.  We still went to her 4-H meeting, but left early.  She vomitted once before she got in the car.  I brought her straight home and she headed immediately for the bathroom where she vomitted several more times.  She told me she needed the shot.  10-15 minutes later she was no better and we rushed her to the ER (less than 10 minutes from my house).  They admitted her and kept her a few days.  The doctor said it was a stomach virus and had hit her hard.   It’s only the 3rd time I had to give an injection for illness and she has had many stomach viruses over the years.

One word of warning - my husband who is diabetic took her blood sugar and it was VERY low.  His immediate reaction was that she was sick because she had not eaten much that day and if she would drink some juice and get her sugar up she would be fine.  During an adrenal crisis, your blood sugar will drop like that and that’s part of why it is so dangerous.  Drinking juice will not bring it back up because you are not absorbing the sugar and processing it properly.  Once her cortisol level was brought back up (by the shot I administered and the dose they gave in her IV), she was able to get that glucose number back up in the normal range.