VIDEO: Teen dies after eating one bite of peanut butter dessert

[Janice]

http://www.ksn.com/2013/07/31/girl-d...-into-dessert/

Girl dies after biting into dessert

CARMICHAEL, California (KCRA) – Natalie Giorgi died after biting into a dessert treat covered with a frosting that contained peanut butter. The 13-year-old had a diagnosed peanut allergy, and her family was vigilant about avoiding peanuts, said family friends.
“It was heartbreaking,” said Kelly Brothers, a family friend who was part of a group of roughly six dozen friends camping together.
Brothers said Giorgi bit into a Rice Krispie treat that she didn’t know had peanut butter frosting.
Within 20 minutes, the teenager was vomiting and falling into anaphylactic shock, even as her father injected her with three EpiPens.
EpiPens are used to treat an allergic reaction.
“Her dad was a doctor and he couldn’t save her from one bite of a dessert. This is a lesson to all of us how serious these allergies are,” said Brothers.
Dr. Travis Miller specializes in food allergies with the Capital Allergy and Respiratory Disease Center.
Miller said the number of peanut allergy incidents has tripled in the past decade.
“It’s a tough question to answer why,” Miller said. “But there are some theories, including that we dry roast peanuts in this country, versus boiling them like much of the rest of the world. The theory is that may create a more allergenic peanut.”
Miller said immunotherapy, involving the use of peanuts to build a tolerance with affected persons, has shown some success, but remains controversial within the medical profession.
As for Brothers, who witnessed the girl’s death, he said what he saw is proof no one should ever scoff when confronted with a separate peanut-free table in the school cafeteria or a request not to eat peanuts on an airplane.
“There were people who rolled their eyes, I’m sure, but no one ever said anything. I’m sure no one will ever do that again, because we now know what one bite of a peanut can do to a young girl,” Brothers said.

[Vahan]

The guy at the end of the video asked how serious could it be.

VERY serious. Peanut allergies are perhaps the most serious out there. Thankfully, I don't have an allergic reaction to it.

[AB]

How very sad, you just never think about peanut products being so dangerous.

[robyrob]

anyone with a serious food allergy that has experienced anaphylactic shock knows just how scary and serious this is. I usually only eat at restaurants that I am familiar with and know that there is very little chance of cross-contamination, but there are still 'incidents' (Long John Silver's is the WORST - i swear those people don't give a crap). I look over my food carefully first and smell it, sometimes even get my wife to taste it first.

peanut allergies are especially dangerous because peanut butter oil is so easy to transfer from item to item to item and create cross-contamination, and kids will transfer the peanut butter from their lunchtime sandwich to every toy they touch and everything else.

[80sTrivia]

Wow...very tragic and sad...

[OH Nuts!]

This is so sad and scary. That poor family, my heart goes out to them.

(I'm grateful I don't have any food allergies.)

[Waterston_Fan]

I do wonder what is causing all of these food allergies the last few years when there weren't that many 20 or so years ago.

[Family Ties Forever!]

So very sad.

[Clevelandsucks]

Why didn't the girl or her parents find out what was in the dessert before it was eaten?

Homemade: You ask the person who made it if peanuts or peanut butter are part of the ingredients.

Store Bought: Read the ingredients.

It is very sad that this girl had to die because nobody used any common sense.