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How This 20-Year-Old Died From Kissing Her Boyfriend
cosmopolitan.com ^

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).

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: allergies; peanuts
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To: Original Lurker

I think peanut allergies came about when kids stopped drinking hose and gutter water


41 posted on 06/11/2016 7:32:19 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom yes I know john 3:16)
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To: FR_addict

Also so-called ADHD. When I was a kid, if someone misbehaved they got a classic spanking from their dad and, Presto! No more ADHD. If misbehavior continued, they were expelled. It’s the truth


42 posted on 06/11/2016 7:39:57 AM PDT by pabianice (LINE)
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To: Jonty30

I think those scientist are wrong. I had allergies since childhood to things I lived with, dust, mold, pollen , feathers and ate corn, chocolate, I never ate peanut butter until I was an adult and I am not allergic to it.

This too clean meme is a crock. You inherit the gene.


43 posted on 06/11/2016 7:42:58 AM PDT by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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To: Gaffer

I grew up in peanut country. Kids would help with the planting and harvesting. There wasn’t anyone who wasn’t in contact with someone who had been around peanuts or touched or breathed peanut dust. School lunch trays had free government peanut butter on them every day. PBJ was the standard sack lunch and afterschool snack. No one ever heard of peanut allergies.

Recently, doctors are beginning to say to expose your child to peanuts early so they won’t develop allergies later. Makes sense.


44 posted on 06/11/2016 7:46:10 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Nifster

Not peanut related but a few years ago there was a teen who died because his mother wouldn’t use a recently expired epi pen on him. Or maybe it was an asthma inhaler but either way it was beyond stupid.


45 posted on 06/11/2016 7:51:30 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: varyouga; Gaffer

I developed an allergy to penicillins in my twenties. The doctor told me you can become allergic to any thing at any time. My husband stepped in a yellow jacket nest when he was a toddler and ended up in the hospital, he is now allergic to stings, but swears he is over it. Heavy sigh. He has his own construction business so is often alone on a job site. I try not to think about it.

Two of our kids have allergies. The oldest is a puzzle as his was a full term pregnancy and no major illnesses. He has environmental allergies (many! Trees, grasses, molds, animals) which induce asthma. The only thing I can think of is that I was an anxious new mom and did everything “right” including introducing grains at four months old. I read up on nutrition and fed my other babies quite differently. Our fifth son was a preemie (not traumatic, it was a planned c-section due to a complete previa) and despite me taking high quality probiotics to prepare, he has many food allergies. Thankfully, they cause eczema not an anaphylactic reaction. Though at two a reaction to a skin virus (easy to pick up with open skin) put him in the hospital for a few days. Functional medicine doctor said he was a textbook example of leaky gut caused by the antibiotics he got at birth. They saved his life but cause a leaky gut, so many foods trigger an allergic response.

All of that has brought me to this conclusion: gut health is extremely important. 100 years ago we didn’t see so many people with allergies, autism and asthma, but my son and I would have died in childbirth-he wouldn’t have lived to develop allergies. Friends of ours had their first daughter 8 weeks early-she is autistic, 100 years ago she most likely would have died rather than grow to show symptoms of autism. I’m a fan of antibiotics as they save babies’ lives, but they do impair gut health and it’s hard to heal. I know it’s not the only cause of allergies, asthma and autism but I think it plays a huge role.


46 posted on 06/11/2016 7:51:54 AM PDT by NorthstarMom (God says debt is a curse and children are a blessing, yet we apply for loans and prevent pregnancy.)
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To: Gaffer
The last 10 or 20 years I’ve heard so much about this peanut thing. I can’t remember a single case of the same thing going back through all my younger days, youth and childhood.

My older brother had severe peanut and soybean allergies growing up. This was in the 60s. He survived, but only because he was very careful, and pretty lucky.

Lots of kids with severe allergies just died back in those days. There were no Epipens. My brother had an inhaler, and Primatine was available over-the-counter, but if he had a severe attack, it was a race to the hospital.

As an adult, the problem has become less severe. He is still careful, though.

The thing is, unless you were a member of the family, my brothers allergies were not your problem. He was responsible for taking care of himself. He did not eat anything without knowing what was in it. He would no more eat a brownie at a bake sale than he would jump off the roof of the house. (Come to think of it, we jumped off the roof of the house all the time)

It was not another parent's responsibility to keep peanuts out of the school building. It was his responsibility to keep them out of his mouth. He was a in very small minority, and it was never expected that the entire world would change to accommodate his particular problem.

47 posted on 06/11/2016 7:56:02 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (New York Senator Kristin Gillibrand will be the next President of the United States)
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To: SamAdams76

That’s gross using the store’s grinder. Yuk. Yuk. Yuk. Who knows who or what has been touching that thing or how long it has gone without being cleaned.

Use your clean non-germy home food processor.


48 posted on 06/11/2016 7:56:48 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Gaffer
I think part of it is that we are getting better at keeping these folks alive. Maybe they used to die at a very young age before, but the epi pen and other things keep them alive longer.

Sort of like the so-called high infant mortality rate in the US. It is only because we are better at having them survive until childbirth. In other countries with a better rate those babies are "born dead" instead of kept alive for awhile while trying to save them.

49 posted on 06/11/2016 7:57:54 AM PDT by T. P. Pole
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To: SamAdams76

Most all corn is GMO these days.


50 posted on 06/11/2016 7:58:34 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: T. P. Pole
Sort of like the so-called high infant mortality rate in the US. It is only because we are better at having them survive until childbirth. In other countries with a better rate those babies are "born dead" instead of kept alive for awhile while trying to save them.

In most of the world, if the child dies within the first few days, it is not recorded as an infant death. For statistical purposes, it is the same as if the child was stillborn.

51 posted on 06/11/2016 8:05:51 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (New York Senator Kristin Gillibrand will be the next President of the United States)
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To: bgill
Well germs are everywhere, even in your own home. In fact, I venture to say that the peanut grinders in the supermarket would be cleaner than mine at home because my home is not subject to surprise food inspections as they would be at a public supermarket.

I actually find that the "germ phobics" are often the sickliest people. I am a believer that you keep your immune system healthy by exposing yourself to germs. Just like a fit runner will fall out of shape quickly if he does not run a certain number of miles a week, so will your immune system. I'm not saying be stupid about it. Obviously you want to maintain a standard of hygiene.

Celebrities like Howard Hughes and Michael Jackson were germ-phobic and they had miserable lives. Remember Michael Jackson walking around with his surgical mask so that he could avoid other people's germs?

52 posted on 06/11/2016 8:06:32 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (Delegates So Far: Trump (1,542); Cruz (559); Rubio (165); Kasich (161)
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To: freedumb2003

Chemtrails


53 posted on 06/11/2016 8:07:01 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom yes I know john 3:16)
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To: vladimir998

Why would someone with an allergy like that go to a seaside resort?

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54 posted on 06/11/2016 8:10:37 AM PDT by Mears
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To: BenLurkin

I’d be interested in knowing how many with weird allergies or other problems were delivered C-section? Read Dr. Perlmutters book, Brain Matters, and you’ll understand.


55 posted on 06/11/2016 8:17:18 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Alinsky.....it's what's for dinner: with Cloward Piven for Dessert)
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To: SamAdams76

Let your system rassle with a few microbes and eat live garlic to give your fighters an edge, I sez.


56 posted on 06/11/2016 8:19:49 AM PDT by Ketill Frostbeard ("Go not a step from your door unarmed, travel armed for war, you may at any time need a spear." ODIN)
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To: SamAdams76

Surprise food inspections, lol. There have been stores and restaurants that have been in business for decades which have never had an inspection. Most of the country has never seen an inspector. There is not enough funding to hire enough inspectors to cover then entire food industry.


57 posted on 06/11/2016 8:26:08 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: bgill
There have been stores and restaurants that have been in business for decades which have never had an inspection.

Where?

I worked in a restaurant and it was otherwise poorly run. I have no idea how they made money. But one thing they did well was keep everything clean because of those darned food inspections. A bad food inspection will shut the place down and likely put you out of business. So even a poorly run restaurant will at least focus on that.

One reason I left the restaurant business was because of all that endless scrubbing of stainless steel surfaces and pots and pans. I practically rubbed the skin off my hands with steel wool and industrial grade soap keeping everything spotless.

So I'd be interested to hear where food inspections are never done. So I can stay away from them.

58 posted on 06/11/2016 8:33:24 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (Delegates So Far: Trump (1,542); Cruz (559); Rubio (165); Kasich (161)
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To: Ketill Frostbeard

I eat garlic all the time! Also, a lot of beer and yogurt, which has live microbes.


59 posted on 06/11/2016 8:34:08 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (Delegates So Far: Trump (1,542); Cruz (559); Rubio (165); Kasich (161)
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To: freedumb2003
I agree it is most strange.

Well duh. It is caused by illegal aliens. Everybody knows that.

60 posted on 06/11/2016 8:50:29 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (American Jobs for American Workers.)
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