Essentials of Pharmacology for Health Professions 7th Edition by Ruth Woodrow,Bruce Colbert ,David Smith

Exercise 2

Lucy Westcott is a 47-year-old female who has a severe allergy to shrimp. While at a cocktail party, she inadvertently ingests some shrimp from an hors d'oeuvre tray. She begins to experience signs of a severe reaction to the shrimp such as throat tightening and lip and eyelid swelling. Question
When a patient is given an adrenergic medication, which action does the medication have on the autonomic nervous system
A) It mimics a sympathetic response.
B) It blocks a sympathetic response.
C) It mimics a parasympathetic response.
D) It blocks a parasympathetic response.