"So careful. He reads labels. I read. We don't have anything in our house. Just so careful. So it's just really hard," she said.
But Saturday night at a friend's house Bonni says he ate a cookie -- that contained a peanut -- and he came home an hour later and began vomiting.
What that family is going through is horrific.
Without any sort of judgement, this added information still is troubling to me. I still am wondering how it is he ate a cookie with a peanut. I also am wondering how an hour passed between eating the cookie and any treatment.
Whatever this family did and the events that transpired, in and of itself I am so incredibly sorry this is happening.
As a person though, with a vested interest in sort of risk assessment and trying to go over measures to have in place to prevent allergic reactions, there are questions I have, and still am wondering about the cookie.
Frankly, I don't want it to be homemade by someone ..... I can't even begin to fathom just how that would weigh on a person. Not that something manufactured and mislabeled is better, but at least it could be recalled, rather than if it was a friend who would then have to live with something like this.
Also, I wonder about the hour time span. Was this another case of a disparity of how allergists tell their patients to deal with accidental ingestion? Which then brings up inconsistency within the field that should be addressed so that future tragedies like this are given more of a fighting chance for a possibility of a better outcome.