Home | Community | Message Board

MRCA Tyroler Gluckspilze
This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.


Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Bridgetown Botanicals Shop: CBD Topicals

Jump to first unread post Pages: 1
Invisiblequiver
freedrug
Male

Registered: 10/25/05
Posts: 8,047
the kiss of death
    #4997270 - 11/30/05 01:21 AM (18 years, 3 months ago)

sorry if its old news but i thought it was badluck in its extreme

Girl with peanut allergy dies after kiss
Email Print Normal font Large font Montreal
November 29, 2005 - 11:47AM

15-year-old girl with a peanut allergy died after kissing her boyfriend, who had just eaten a peanut butter snack, hospital officials said today.

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 250 kilometres 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.

Peanut allergies afflict 1 to 1.5 per cent of the population, said Rhoda Kagan, peanut allergist at Montreal Children's Hospital.

In the United States, about 1.5 million people are severely allergic to even the smallest trace of peanuts and peanut allergies account for 50 to 100 deaths each year.

Desforges' case is "very rare and worrisome" she said. "Some people have an extremely low threshold," Kagan said, stressing cases of allergic reactions to peanut dust. "This varies greatly from person to person and is highly unpredictable."

Reactions will depend on personal medical history and on how much peanut substance was ingested. Allergy sufferers are often warned of threats from casual contact.

While a shot of adrenaline is recommended immediately following such an attack, hospitalisation is usually required to monitor progress as patients can have a recurring attack in 20 to 30 per cent of cases, Kagan said.

- AP


--------------------

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: 1

Bridgetown Botanicals Shop: CBD Topicals


Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* Ego Death #3 Asante 369 4 03/02/18 04:44 AM
by mndfreeze
* Montreal College Shooting Irishdrunk 1,675 11 09/13/06 04:04 PM
by Krishna
* Allergies blow! trendalM 1,728 15 07/04/05 05:32 PM
by trendal
* ALLERGIES SerioOria 1,223 13 08/13/05 03:08 PM
by Shroomism
* Party time in Montreal!! Delyrium 1,055 13 06/25/04 08:38 PM
by masterg
* Moving to Montreal toazterRockwell 799 4 05/25/04 09:05 PM
by Zutroye
* does any one out there have any 'Of Montreal' for a possible file tranfer trade? darkstar45 575 4 10/10/05 08:14 PM
by Yrtlzmo
* Fatal Montreal College Shooting crakkattak 517 0 09/14/06 07:29 PM
by crakkattak

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: Entire Staff
308 topic views. 6 members, 42 guests and 66 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2024 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.022 seconds spending 0.007 seconds on 13 queries.