[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Soldier Boy

I don't understand how this happened if she was fatally allergic, there's no way to entirely prevent cross-contamination in a venue like that even before you consider the risk of errors. Milk protein allergy is very different to lactose intolerance. Even then though a fatal reaction with milk allergy is extremely rare?

…yeah, that’s why I said if it was proven to be the drink because that sounds like a hugely extreme reaction…and as with severe nut allergies …’could contain nuts’ because of the area the drink is prepared in, would apply also…it’s inevitable that dairy would have been present in that area …

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…yeah, that’s why I said if it was proven to be the drink because that sounds like a hugely extreme reaction…and as with severe nut allergies …’could contain nuts’ because of the area the drink is prepared in, would apply also…it’s inevitable that dairy would have been present in that area …

Poor girl though, I don't think I'd ever eat out at all if I had allergies that severe , it would be terrifying

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Poor girl though, I don't think I'd ever eat out at all if I had allergies that severe , it would be terrifying

…no I know, it’s a very scary thing to live with…we’ve had children at the school with very severe allergies…/…mainly nut but we have had a few others on occasion’s…and what others around them are eating obviously had to be carefully looked at and considered as well..

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…no I know, it’s a very scary thing to live with…we’ve had children at the school with very severe allergies…/…mainly nut but we have had a few others on occasion’s…and what others around them are eating obviously had to be carefully looked at and considered as well..

Yeah the nut ones are crazy, that even another passenger on a plane eating nuts for example could effect the person with the allergy

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Yeah the nut ones are crazy, that even another passenger on a plane eating nuts for example could effect the person with the allergy

…yeah and I know my main experience of severe allergies is more restricted to young children but I’ve never known any of the more severe allergies have any food that’s been prepared in a public area…

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…yeah and I know my main experience of severe allergies is more restricted to young children but I’ve never known any of the more severe allergies have any food that’s been prepared in a public area…

How could you risk it really?

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

How could you risk it really?

…and take that risk without having an epipen as well…it’ll be interesting to know a more complete story of this…

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…no I know, it’s a very scary thing to live with…we’ve had children at the school with very severe allergies…/…mainly nut but we have had a few others on occasion’s…and what others around them are eating obviously had to be carefully looked at and considered as well..

My wife and daughter both shouldn't (but do lol) have dairy, my daughter is lactose intolerance and wife has mild milk protein allergy but neither would have more than a risk of a slightly off stomach.

Although, my wife did once eat a protein chocolate bar -- unaware that it's basically a condensed block of milk protein . She was VERY VERY unwell, in a lot of pain. But again that's a condensed block of pure protein not a little sip of milk.

[bots]

Originally Posted by Soldier Boy

My wife and daughter both shouldn't (but do lol) have dairy, my daughter is lactose intolerance and wife has mild milk protein allergy but neither would have more than a risk of a slightly off stomach.

Although, my wife did once eat a protein chocolate bar -- unaware that it's basically a condensed block of milk protein . She was VERY VERY unwell, in a lot of pain. But again that's a condensed block of pure protein not a little sip of milk.

i once threw up in a restaurant 3 minutes after eating a pea that had been buttered. I think the restaurant learnt a valuable lesson that night on listening to customer requests

[GoldHeart]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Poor girl though, I don't think I'd ever eat out at all if I had allergies that severe , it would be terrifying

When allergies are that severe ,they usually have a EpiPen of some kind or medication ...I would have thought? .

However...I still don't understand how such a huge error like this could be made , considering how accommodating coffee shops usually are re: allergies & dietary requirements, when I've been to coffee places ...they usually have every plant based milk that's going.

And if the worker didn't understand or didn't check ,then he shouldn't be serving food & drinks, especially to people with allergies that severe. It's cost her life .

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by GoldHeart

When allergies are that severe ,they usually have a EpiPen of some kind or medication ...I would have thought?

However...I still don't understand how such a huge error like this could be made , considering how accommodating coffee shops usually are re: allergies & dietary requirements, when I've been to coffee places ...they usually have every plant based milk that's going.

And if the worker didn't understand or didn't check ,then he shouldn't be serving food & drinks, especially to people with allergies that severe. It's cost her life .

…yeah, that was my thought with the Epipen and that’s obviously ideally how it should be….I know at the school, though…that we’ve been without epicene for a long while because there has been such a shortage for several years now and it isn’t something that seems to rectify…I say this also because it was mentioned in the radio that she was waiting for an epipen and didn’t have one at the time to be able to carry around…