According to Hannah Jacobs' mother (13 years old, London, England), although she has informed the bartender that her child was allergic to milk.However, when taking a sip of hot chocolate, she immediately realized that she still contained milk and said this to her mother.
Although the two of them quickly arrived at the nearby pharmacy to buy emergency treatment as well as call an ambulance, but in the end, she still died just hours later.
Hannah Jacobs
It is known that Hannah is allergic to milk, eggs, fish and wheat.This has been diagnosed since childhood, so the family was always aware of good control, avoiding her in contact with allergenic foods, so there was no big problem in daily life.
Even so, the unfortunate thing in the end still happens.
Experts in the UK estimated that 10 British deaths died from food allergies to food, 5,000 people were hospitalized for serious reactions.Allergies can cause many different symptoms but the most serious is anaphylaxis.
How dangerous anaphylaxis?
According to experts, anaphylaxis is a serious acute allergic reaction and can be fatal in just a few minutes.Anaphylaxis can make it difficult for patients to breathe, not even breathe and fall into cardiac arrest due to lack of oxygen.
According to the National Health Service (NHS), this situation occurs when the immune system reacts overly with the pathogens.
Symptoms include: feel dizzy or fainting;shortness of breath (fast breathing, shallow, wheezing);tachycardia;sweat;Confusion, anxiety or loss of consciousness.
Children with allergies are considered to be special and easily lead to serious reactions.In addition to food allergies, allergies to some ingredients in the drug, bee burning or even latex can also cause life -threatening reactions.
When encountering anaphylactic shock, it is necessary to immediately call emergency or take patients to the nearest medical facility for timely treatment.At the same time, for cases of people who are allergic to food or other ingredients, be careful to always bring medicine with them to use in emergencies.
Source: Daily Mall