Posted on 06/11/2016 6:25:53 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Myriam Ducre-Lemay, 20, died in 2012 after kissing her boyfriend — he'd eaten a peanut butter sandwich and wasn't aware of her peanut allergy (or the severity of it) and she was not carrying her EpiPen with her at the time, CTV News reports. Her mother is just now publicizing the story to help others avoid the same situation.
According to CJAD, Ducre-Lemay and her boyfriend had been out at a party earlier that night, which is why she didn't have her medication or her Medic Alert bracelet on her. After the kiss, she had trouble breathing, tried using her asthma pump, and, when that didn't work, asked her boyfriend about peanuts — when he said he'd eaten them, she told him to call 911.
He attempted to give her CPR before the ambulance arrived. Emergency crews attempted to resuscitate her with epinephrine, but failed. En route to the hospital, Ducre-Lemay suffered cardiopulmonary arrest, which led to cerebral anoxia (oxygen deprivation to the brain).
(Excerpt) Read more at cosmopolitan.com ...
Free dumb -
RE: “no scientific evidence that vaccines cause autism”
Actually, there is Ample evidence they do.
READ the vaccine side affects label:
Tripedia (Diphtheria and Tetanus Toxoids and Acellular Pertussis Vaccine) Drug Information: Side Effects and Drug Interactions - Prescribing Information at RxList
http://www.rxlist.com/script/main/mobileart-rx.asp?drug=tripedia&monotype=rx-ad&monopage=4
Adverse events reported during post-approval use of Tripedia (diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis vaccine) vaccine include idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, SIDS, anaphylactic reaction, cellulitis, *-> autism, convulsion/grand mal convulsion, encephalopathy, hypotonia, neuropathy, somnolence and apnea. *Events were included in this list because of the seriousness or frequency of reporting.
I know of a woman who had a severe allergy to seafood/shellfish. She and her husband were on their second honeymoon at a seaside resort restaurant when a waiter walked by with a large platter of seafood. She had an allergic reaction and died right there. SHE DID NOT EAT ANY SEAFOOD. She died because of the platter carried by the waiter who passed by her.
What about the rise of people who were not allergic and exposed all their lives. Then suddenly get allergies in adulthood?
Have several in the office and years ago I never heard of such a thing
How sad. Shouldn’t a boyfriend have known that about her?
“Actually, that’s my gut feeling, too. Something else is the cause. Something no one wants to admit.”
I’ve always wondered if there’s a difference in allergy rates between families which used The Pill and families that did not. There is a difference in breast cancer rates, but no one is supposed to admit that.
Good question.
” I can’t remember a single case of the same thing going back through all my younger days, youth and childhood.”
Part of that...we didn’t have the means of communication back then that we have now. Think about it. Something that occurs on the other side of the world is suddenly news and posted at a hundred (thousand?) internet websites within minutes...usually with pictures and running commentary.
Throw in the fact that EVERYBODY wants EVERYONE EVERYWHERE to know EVERYTHING they’re doing right this second ALL THE TIME, and you have a world of information overload.
When we were young, bad things that happened probably just stayed in the dark. Our parents maybe even made efforts to shield us from the bad side of life.
Agree.
Never saw or heard of such things when growing up.
You forgot “safe spaces”. :-)
She died because she was unfit
Yup. . .we can’t have everyone enjoying such a thing when someone, somewhere, can’t. . .that would be exclusionary and that is bad.
A friend of my daughter decided to do just that. On her way to a pediatrician visit she gave her daughter peanuts. No reaction.
My daughter-in-law developed a shellfish allergy in her 20’s. If they order take-out Chinese food, they even have her food put in a different bag. My son asks them over and over to make sure there is nothing in the food that has shellfish. So far ,so good.
Only if she told him. . .haven’t read the article, doing the FReeper thing, so I don’t know if she did or not. . .I suspect not.
Perhaps. . .but we knew about epileptic fits because we saw them. Kind of like food allergies. Don’t know the rate of people with epilepsy and severe food allergies, but I suspect they are close.
Back in those days you only got local news stories in the paper and since this event occurred in Montreal, you never would have heard of it.
The internet has provided us with news about everything happening everywhere...............
1) I did not say “vaccines” — if you quote, quote accurately.
2) You did not complete the disclaimer: “Events were included in this list because of the seriousness or frequency of reporting. Because these events are reported voluntarily from a population of uncertain size, it is not always possible to reliably estimate their frequencies or to establish a causal relationship to components of Tripedia (diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis vaccine) vaccine”
If you quote, do not quotemine.
Your attempt at argument is the standard ignorant “Post hoc ergo propter hoc” fallacy.
3) anecdotes<>science. If you quote, quote the proper context.
Just like the libs are trying to sue gun manufacturers they’ll try suing Walmart for selling peanut butter.
Me either
Excellent thought.
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