Habiba Kishuti dies after falling after eating ice cream. Photo =’Daily Mail’ Twitter capture
[아시아경제 김영은 기자] A 9-year-old British girl died after having an allergic reaction to nuts after eating ice cream.
According to the daily mail of the British media on the 25th (local time), a 9-year-old girl, Habiba Kishti, went on vacation with her family to the coast of Costa del Sol, Spain in February 2019. Habiba, who had a bite of ice cream with chocolate sauce at an ice cream shop, collapsed at the hotel that evening and was hastily taken to the hospital, but died two days later.
The coroner in charge revealed that the cause of Habiba’s death was “anaphylactic shock (irritable shock),” and a lethal amount of nuts was found in Habiba’s body, which was usually allergic to nuts and eggs.
Anaphylaxis shock, a severe acute allergic reaction, is a disease in which sudden systemic allergy symptoms appear within a short time after exposure to an allergen or specific stimulus. More than half of the causes of anaphylaxis are food, and typical symptoms include skin symptoms such as rash or itchiness, but shortness of breathing, rough breathing, or severe blood pressure drop may lead to fainting or death.
At a hearing held at the Bradford coroner’s court on the 25th, Habiba’s father told the ice cream seller that he had checked three times to see if the ice cream contained nuts. The ice cream seller answered “no” three times, but it was confirmed that the ice cream contained five kinds of nuts, including peanuts and almonds.
“People with allergies is fatal enough to lick ice cream once,” said Martha Cohen, a pediatric pathologist at Sheffield Children’s Hospital. “Ice cream potentially contains one or more allergens.”
In addition, Habiba’s father said, “When Habiba fell, he did CPR himself,” and the hotel medical staff said that no one appeared. “I had to take a taxi to pursue my parents even though an ambulance came, so I had to follow them,” he asked for the entrance of hotels and hospitals.
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