Welcome!
this is : anaphylaxisfacts.blogspot.com
Hello!
We are from Temasek Polytechnic,
taking this subject:
Principles of Biochemistry and Physiological for Nutrition.
And we are doing this blog
on a Severe Allergic reaction called
Anaphylaxis.
To cut the story short,
You will learn everything you need to know about Anaphylaxis here!
By
Aiwei, Carol, Daphne, Karen, Rochelle, Juiwei!
Sunday, February 7, 2010
about:
Died from eating peanuts?
author:
Ai wei
Carol
Daphne
Karen
Rochelle
Jui Wei
Here's a short video which displays how anaphylaxis can be a silent killer.
To start off our first post on this blog,
let's look at this real story taken from
http://www.allergicliving.com/features.asp?copy_id=103
Teen Tragedies
The shocking deaths of two teens provide clues to what goes wrong in
fatal reactions.
By Gwen Smith
and Karen Eck
When news surfaced that 15-year-old Christina Desforges of Saguenay, Quebec, had died of what appeared to be an anaphylactic reaction to a kiss from a boyfriend who had eaten a peanut butter sandwich, the story travelled from Canada to Mexico to South Africa and on to Europe.
The reason for the media interest was simple: it seemed incredible that death could come from the tiny amount of peanut encountered in a kiss. Not only that, but the young man had eaten his sandwich about nine hours before the kissing started.
The investigation into Christina’s death in November, 2005 is raising questions about whether anaphylaxis and the kiss were to blame – or, at least, solely to blame.
In early March, Coroner Michel Miron told the Quebec media that Christina did not die from peanut exposure through a kiss, but added that he had further tests to
complete. At press time, Miron was still finalizing his report and was considering asthma as the likely main cause of death. However, a leading Canadian allergy expert has told Allergic Living that it may be difficult to entirely rule out anaphylaxis, the severe food allergic reaction, because the condition is inter-related with asthma.
But whatever the final pathology report concludes, what is certain is that Christina was having great trouble breathing at her boyfriend’s home in the early hours of November 21.
She was asthmatic and allergic to peanut. If anaphylaxis or asthma or both were the cause of her respiratory distress, Allergic Living has learned this as well: contrary to the news reports, Christina did not get epinephrine promptly. “It really was not ‘immediately’,” confirmed Dr. Nina Verreault, the Saguenay allergist working with the coroner.
“It was more like ‘late’.”
This is not the only recent allergy-related teenage tragedy. A month after Christina died, Chantelle Yambao of Edmonton, who was severely allergic to nuts and peanuts, ate a store-bought Nanaimo square and began to feel shortness of breath.
Thinking she was having an asthma attack, the 13-year-old used her bronchodilator (or puffer). Hours passed on December 23, 2005, before she let her mother know of her breathing trouble. Then Chantelle collapsed. Her parents phoned 911, but the teen was well into a serious reaction. She lost consciousness and was put on life support in hospital. She died a few days later.
Isn't that scary?
Due to allergies, these two innocent lives were taken away just like that.
So now, Let's move on to know more in depth about anaphylaxis in general and also its clinical features!
