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November 29, 2005
Girl dies in peanut butter kiss
This happened to Husband when we first started dating. He picked me up at work and we ate lunch in the car while parked at the Manasquan Inlet. Unfortunately, I made the mistake and kissed him. Luckily (or foolishly), he was able to get some Benedryl into him quickly and, after driving me back to work, was able to drive himself to the local hospital. I am terrified that something like this could happen to Oliva when she is older.
A 15-year-old Canadian girl with a peanut allergy died after kissing her boyfriend who had eaten a peanut butter sandwich hours earlier, reports say. Christina Desforges, of Saguenay, Quebec, died last week after she failed to respond to days of treatment.
She had been given an adrenaline shot, a standard treatment for anaphylactic shock, almost immediately after she suffered a reaction.
A peanut allergist in Montreal said the case is "very rare and worrisome".
Ms Desforges' 16-year-old boyfriend had kissed her some nine hours after he had eaten peanut butter on toast, the AFP news agency reported.
"She was extremely allergic to peanuts and her boyfriend didn't know," a reporter for Canadian broadcaster TVA said.
Ms Desforges was taken to a hospital in Saguenay, about 155 miles (250km) north of Quebec City, where she died.
Hospital officials refused to comment. A post-mortem is due to be carried out.
Rhoda Kagan, a peanut allergist at Montreal's Children's Hospital, said some people have an "extremely low threshold" of resistance to peanuts and their traces.
"This varies greatly from person to person and is highly unpredictable," she was quoted by the Associated Press as saying.
Peanut allergy symptoms can include hives, a drop in blood pressure and swelling of the face and throat that can block breathing.
Posted by Cate at November 29, 2005 11:29 AM
Comments
Is that crazy or what? I would hate to be that allergic to something....
Posted by: guppyman at November 29, 2005 12:07 PM
wow. I din't realize it was 9 hours later that he kissed her. I thought it was sooner than that. Holy cow. I'll bet he had no idea the peanut butter was still on his mouth!
Posted by: caltechgirl at November 29, 2005 01:48 PM
That is scary when it was so long between him eating peanuts and kissing her. I'd worry too!
Posted by: daisy at November 29, 2005 02:24 PM
Reading that in the paper yesterday made me think of you and Miss O.
Posted by: Sooz at November 29, 2005 07:13 PM
That is truly tragic indeed. Allergies can be a dangerous thing.
Posted by: Kevin at November 29, 2005 08:40 PM
As soon as I heard this story on the news, I thought of Olivia & even mentioned her allergies to my kids & told them I hoped nothing like that ever happens to her. *hugs*
Posted by: Dyane at December 1, 2005 02:12 PM
