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 Mon Mar 06, 2006 6:12 pm Coroner: Lack of oxygen, not peanut-butter kiss, killed girl |
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| Quote: | MONTREAL, Quebec (AP) -- A teenager with a peanut allergy did not die from kissing her boyfriend following his peanut-butter snack, but from a lack of oxygen to her brain, a Quebec coroner said Monday.
Coroner Michel Miron declined to disclose the exact cause of death because he has yet to submit his final report to the provincial coroner's office, but he told The Associated Press he hoped to end the "phobia" provoked by the case, which drew global media coverage.
Christina Desforges, 15, died in a Quebec hospital in November. Officials at the time had said that doctors were unable to treat her allergic reaction to a peanut-laced kiss from her boyfriend the previous weekend.
Allergists described the case as being rare and worrisome.
"Elements of the investigation tell us peanut butter was not responsible," Miron told the AP. Miron said clinical indicators have eliminated peanut as the cause for her death and said it appeared the girl suffered from "cerebral anoxia," or lack of oxygen to the brain, which caused serious damage.
Miron said he could not discuss reports that the girl suffered from asthma and believed she was having an attack before her collapse.
Symptoms of peanut allergies can include hives, plunging blood pressure and swelling of the face and throat, which can block breathing.
Miron said he felt compelled to speak out to counter incorrect claims that peanut butter was responsible for Christina's death, or that injections used to treat allergic reactions were ineffective.
"People thought the girl had not used her Epipen [Adrenalin shot] properly and families were panicking because they thought it wouldn't always work," he said, insisting that the drug's effectiveness was never in doubt.
Scientific journals also had contacted him, questioning the use of the Adrenalin shot and how it is injected.
Coroner: Lack of oxygen, not peanut-butter kiss, killed girl
Monday, March 6, 2006; Posted: 12:24 p.m. EST (17:24 GMT)
"It was necessary to set things straight," Miron said. "The drug wasn't used at all because nobody knew she was allergic," he said, noting the first hospital she was sent to did not have her records.
Miron said the girl and her boyfriend kissed, but many hours after he ate the peanut-butter snack. By then he had ingested other foods such as popcorn and beer.
The saliva generated in the process also would have cleansed his mouth before the kiss, Miron said.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/03/06/peanut.kiss.ap/index.html |
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