Teen With Peanut Allergy Dies After Kiss

[Martrae]

Nov 28, 11:54 AM (ET)

SAGUENAY, Quebec (AP) - A 15-year-old girl with a peanut allergy died after kissing her boyfriend, who had just eaten a peanut butter snack, hospital officials said Monday.

Christina Desforges died in a Quebec hospital Wednesday after doctors were unable to treat her allergic reaction to the kiss the previous weekend.

Desforges, who lived in Saguenay, about 155 miles north of Quebec City, was almost immediately given a shot of adrenaline, a standard tool for treating the anaphylactic shock brought on by a peanut allergy, officials said.

An autopsy was being performed. Dr. Nina Verreault, an allergist at the Chicoutimi Hospital in Saguenay, declined to comment on the case.

The symptoms of peanut allergy can include hives, plunging blood pressure and swelling of the face and throat, which can block breathing.

Peanut allergies have been rising in recent decades. The reason remains unclear but one study found that baby creams or lotions with peanut oil may cause children to develop allergies later in life.

About 1.5 million Americans are severely allergic to even the smallest trace of peanuts and peanut allergies account for 50 to 100 deaths in the United States each year. Canadian figures were not immediately available.






Talk about your kiss of death.

[Phlegm]

That kid's parents should have talk to him. They should told him that if he wants to break up with a girl, all he has to to is tell her. No need to go to all this trouble.

[Jay]

That kid is gonna be haunted for the rest of his life

[Captain Insano]

I call fucking bullshit on the whole story.

[kaharthemad]

actually it can quite possibly happen, All they have to do is play tongue hockey.

I have seen peanut reactions. Not a pretty sight.

[Martrae]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/conditio ... index.html


Believe it now?

[Darcler]

Thats why at elementary schools, they have a table for the kids with peanut allergies. This way, the kids without them wont trade their Nutter Butter with someone who could eat it and die.
Also why, if there is a child with an allergy in the class, kids cant bring in snacks with peanuts for class parties.

So yeah, it could and did happen.

[Captain Insano]

You all know that kids with peanut allergies are possessed by evil spirits... They are meant to die.

[kaharthemad]

seem to recall the bullies in my school. If they were anything like they are now hell they would be flicking peanuts at the allergy table kids.

[Phlegm]

I guess those kids with peanut allergies cant go trick or treating on Halloween either.