No, of course she did not lick the cord. She is a competent adult working a full-time job but looks to go back to college for a bioscience degree. She graduated from high school at age 13.
She charges her phone on a table next to her bed, but likely her overall exposure to the suspect element occurred when she first opened the cord’s packaging and subsequent exposure when she handled the cord during that next 24 hour period (because she had another episode of anaphylaxis).
She has the upmost of common sense and critical thinking, being raised in a home encompassing ranch life/outdoor life and having parents who are both the top in their fields of expertise (computer technology, veterinary medicine).
As far as hysterical reactions, when she was a little girl she actually had plans to catch a very large tarantula (that had gotten into the house and was clinging to the kitchen wall) and put it in one of those big bug boxes so she could watch it and feed it. They did catch it, but her mother took it out behind the barn and let it go.
But she did have a menagerie of critters going on all the time that she caught, observed, loved, and learned from. She reminded me of myself at that age, and it was awesome.
Again, hysterical...as far as this wonderful young lady is concerned, is when her boyfriend proposes to her. But it will be a happy-hysterical we all know~
Sounds like a “got it together” young lady.
As to mold release, considering these likely cell phone accessories come from China, one can never be too cautious. Who knows, what corners they will cut. Honey wagon night soil used for mold release???