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Teen Dies Of Peanut Allergy After Kiss From Boyfriend

Girl Given Shot Of Adrenaline Almost Immediately

UPDATED: 6:52 am EST November 29, 2005

SAGUENAY, Quebec -- A 15-year-old Canadian girl with a peanut allergy has died after kissing her boyfriend, who had just eaten a peanut butter snack.

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

Officials said the girl was almost immediately given a shot of adrenaline, a standard treatment for symptoms brought on by a peanut allergy.

Those symptoms 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 and the reason remains unclear.

About 1.5 million Americans are severely allergic to even a trace of peanuts, and peanut allergies account for 50 to 100 deaths in the United States each year.

http://www.wtov9.com/health/5424266/detail.html

I heard that story last night, it is so sad. Such a severe reaction to the p-nut butter, and for such a sweet thing as a kiss.

Shows how fragile life really is.

How sad .

That is really scary!

Do you think the allergy to peanuts has increased in recent years

or

were the problems of peanuts not covered as well?

I understand the peanut allergy in day care facilities is a big concerns these days.

SOJOURNER wrote: That is really scary!

Do you think the allergy to peanuts has increased in recent years

or

were the problems of peanuts not covered as well?

I understand the peanut allergy in day care facilities is a big concerns these days.


all nuts and peanut butter products are banned from our local schools here. My daughter went through grades 1-6 with a young boy with terrible severe peanut allergies and just the smell would send him to the hospital. Poor kid.

Jeasus, thats harsh, I think that guy is going to have a few hang ups when he gets older. Alergies are weird though aren't they? I'm alergic to aspirin, and I nearly died from it once, though luckly I'm not as susceptible to it as that poor girl. Very sad.

oh god, go away and kiss some fowl.

thats very sad. I can't imagine being that allergic to something that is everywhere! On lots of packages you see ''May contain traces of nuts'' and then to be so allergic that a kiss from someone else who ate it kills you!:-1 I feel bad for both of the them...but then again...didn't the boyfriend know she had that severe of an allergy?

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SAGUENAY, Quebec -- Remember the story about the 15-year-old Canadian girl with a peanut allergy who kissed her boyfriend after he ate peanut butter?

A coroner now says that's not what killed her.

The coroner in Quebec isn't revealing the actual cause of death, because he hasn't yet submitted his final report and because he's still waiting on some test results.

But he is refuting the peanut-butter report that drew attention around the world a few months ago. Michel Miron said he is speaking out now because the Canadian Association of Food Allergies was going to cite the case as part of an education campaign. He needed to let the group know that "the cause of death was different than first believed," he said.

After the girl died, officials said doctors hadn't been able to treat an allergic reaction to the kiss the previous weekend.