Posted on 09/06/2022 7:28:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The husband of a woman who died after eating a Pret a Manger wrap has told an inquest of the harrowing moment she collapsed unable to breathe. Celia Marsh, 42, died on December 27, 2017, after eating a super-veg rainbow flatbread.
The wrap had contained yogurt that was supposed to be vegan but was later found to have traces of dairy protein in it. The mother of five suffered from a severe dairy allergy and Avon Coroner’s Court was told she “religiously avoided” all such products following a near-fatal allergic reaction months earlier.
Mrs Marsh’s death followed that of 15-year-old Natasha Ednan-Laperouse, who died in 2016 after eating a Pret baguette containing sesame seeds, bought at Heathrow.
Natasha had a sesame allergy. The tragedy sparked an overhaul of food labelling laws last year. Retailers must now display full ingredient and allergen labelling on food made on the premises as well as pre-packed items.
Mrs Marsh, a dental nurse from Melksham, Wilts, had been on a post-Christmas shopping trip with her husband and three of her daughters when she went into a Pret in Bath, Somerset. In his statement, Andy Marsh said his wife had begun to feel “a bit funny” after eating the wrap.
He said: “We started walking down the narrow side street... Celia had her asthma inhaler out.
“She used it a couple of times and I asked her if she was OK. She said she was struggling to breathe but it may be because of the cold air. We then moved to a small side street on the left and I pulled her to one side.”
He said Mrs Marsh had thought she was “being silly” because the sandwich had been labelled vegan.
He added: “She had her EpiPen in her hand and I said to her that if she thought there was any chance she was having a reaction that she should just do it and use the pen.
“She then said to me ‘You need to phone an ambulance’.”
Mr Marsh said he phoned 999 by which time his wife had collapsed and was being tended to by an off-duty GP.
A civil servant who came to her aid said a crowd had formed as she lay on the ground.
He described the scene as “disturbing” and said he saw Mr Marsh attempting to comfort his young daughter.
Mrs Marsh was taken to hospital where she was pronounced dead at 4pm.
Pret was charged with food safety failures, but the prosecution was later dropped due to lack of evidence.
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No, I don’t think that’s it. When you were in elementary or High School did everyone have to avoid anything with peanuts in it? We’re a bunch of kids carrying around epipens?
lol...lots of that going around!
When I was in school, epipens were unheard of (they may even not yet have been invented) and any kid with a "problem" kept it on the "down low."
Today, they are all encouraged to blast their condition(s) to the world and demand that the other 99.9% kowtow to their "needs."
In my day, any kid with a special problem would have been required to eat his lunch in a stuffy little separate side-room, with Sister Mary sternly watching over him, and the whole issue would have been hushed up, as was proper.
When I was in HS, I was placed in "Special P.E." class, with a bunch of haemophiliacs, suspected gay-boys, and other assorted genetic misfits and screwballs. (Don't ask me why they thought I belonged there, but I made some life-long friends in that class!) No one made a big deal about it. Today, it would be spread all across the front page of the school newspaper.
Regards,
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noun
A trough or an open box in which feed for livestock is placed.
A trough or box in which is laid for horses or cattle such food as oats, bran, roots, or the like (hay being generally placed in a rack above the manger); the receptacle from which horses or cattle eat in a stable or cowhouse.
Nautical, a small space at the forward end of the deck, divided off by a combing (called the manger-board), just back of the hawse-holes, to prevent the entrance of water through the latter when the after part of the deck is flooded.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
Vegan yogurt?
If it was vegan….it wasn’t yogurt. Yogurt is made from milk. It was probably more like goop.
The daughter of a friend had a peanut allergy. So all thru grade school, the mother, who was a nurse, would meet with the daughter’s teachers at the beginning of each school year and provide them with an epipen and instruct them how to use it.
Thanks for feedback. It’s amazing how the body can change over the years. I will have to bring this up with my allergist.
ready to eat...
My friend’s daughter-in-law has a severe peanut allergy. She actually brought containers of her own food on her honeymoon and was allowed in the hotel kitchen while it was being prepared.
She does. She got the Deli Belly. Her brother is an MD working with contageous diseases, and he feels it could have triggered an immune response.
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