Girl dies after kiss from boyfriend

[Henry]

I've heard sadder stories, but this one's pretty sad.

Link to Story

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.

Imagine just a kiss killing you. I know there have to be people on ENWorld living with nut allergies, but what amazes me is dealing with the sheer amount of ways you can come into contact with the allergen in the world - from what I can tell checking wrappers, not one candy bar is safe, and you pretty much have to prepare all meals yourself, because every restaurant I've ever seen has used nuts in some dish they've cooked.

Or maybe I'm just misreading how much "trace" it takes?

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

A guy I used to work with was allergic to peanuts. He kept one of those huge adrenaline syringes in his desk drawer at work. He told me one time what it was for, and how I was to administer this shot of adrenaline to save his life.

Think Pulp Fiction.

I was like, "Dude, I'm sorry, I'm just gonna have to watch you die..."

As for trace: He got severely (though not life-threateningly) sick one time from handling a packet of cheap tattoos from a Cracker Jack box. Not, like, immediately out of the box. Just something that someone had left sitting around their desk.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Crazy stuff.

 

[Pbartender]

Imagine just a kiss killing you.

Imagine inadvertantly killing your girlfriend with just a kiss.

 

[WayneLigon]

Imagine inadvertantly killing your girlfriend with just a kiss.

Yeah, that's pretty much 'Therapy for Life' there....

I had no idea some people could be that sensitive to the nut allergy.

 

[crybaby]

Yeah, that's pretty much 'Therapy for Life' there....

Talk about issues for life. I dont know if you can get enough therapy for something like this.

 

[Dark Jezter]

Imagine just a kiss killing you.

Unavailable for comment.

 

[Aeson]

Unavailable for comment.

This bears repeating.

 

[The Shaman]

I call B.S.

Anaphylactic shock appears in minutes to hours, not days - that's why those with allergies keep adrenaline nearby.

This doesn't sound right to me.

 

[devilbat]

Other reports I have read on this story have said the kiss happened a few hours earlier.

I have a neighbor whose one year old son has a deadly allergy to peanuts. It basically keeps them from going anywhere. We had them over a few weeks ago. I had spent hours sanitizing the house, and making sure we were peanut free. Within fifteen minutes, the little guy broke out in hives.

Sad to see.