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"Nightmare" on the plane: girl suffers allergy shock because passenger does not want to do without peanuts

2022-06-09T21:11:39.392Z


"Nightmare" on the plane: girl suffers allergy shock because passenger does not want to do without peanuts Created: 06/09/2022, 23:01 By: Lukas Einkammerer A medical emergency during a flight can turn into a real nightmare. This is exactly what happened to a 14-year-old girl from England. (Iconic image) © IMAGO / Sven Simon A young traveler suffers a severe allergy shock mid-flight. Blame it o


"Nightmare" on the plane: girl suffers allergy shock because passenger does not want to do without peanuts

Created: 06/09/2022, 23:01

By: Lukas Einkammerer

A medical emergency during a flight can turn into a real nightmare.

This is exactly what happened to a 14-year-old girl from England.

(Iconic image) © IMAGO / Sven Simon

A young traveler suffers a severe allergy shock mid-flight.

Blame it on the recklessness of another passenger. 

London – Who doesn't know it: You're sitting in an airplane, thousands of meters in the air and you watch the world go by on a small scale below.

On the one hand it sounds romantic, but on the other hand it also sounds scary.

After all, there is nowhere to go and you have to wait hours on long-haul flights to finally feel solid ground under your feet again.

For a young passenger from England, such a journey through the clouds turned out to be a nightmare.

Because during the flight she suffered a severe allergic shock – which another passenger is to blame for. 

Girl suffers allergy shock on plane: 14-year-old is in mortal danger during eight-hour flight

Joanna Jones told the British newspaper

Dailymail

that her 14-year-old daughter Poppy suffered severe allergic shock during an eight-hour British Airways flight from Antigua to London.

Poppy, who has a particularly dangerous nut allergy, is said to have fainted about three hours before the end of the voyage and was said to require artificial respiration by a nurse on board after being administered two epipens. 

Despite the medical attention Poppy received during the flight, she was reportedly taken to hospital immediately after landing at Gatwick Airport.

"It was a nightmare for all of us and I really thought she might die," Joanna Jones recalled of the horror flight. "It was really scary and in the end it was all down to one passenger who, despite several warnings continued to eat nuts.” 

Girl Suffers Allergy Shock On Plane: Passenger Blames Medical Emergency

Although the passenger who Joanna Jones says is to blame for her daughter's allergic shock sat many rows in front of them, he was reportedly told several times not to eat nuts during the flight.

He repeatedly ignored the instructions - and thus caused a life-threatening, anaphylactic shock in Poppy.

"People don't think it's a serious problem, but it is," explains Joanna Jones. "The airlines should be doing more.

They should ban people on board from eating nuts if someone is allergic.” Earlier on in the trip, Joanna's family tried to switch seats to keep their distance from the passenger, but was unable to do so.

"He doesn't seem to care that he endangered my daughter's life," says Joanna Jones.

It is sad that Joanna and her children's well-deserved family vacation had to come to such an unfortunate end.

Sadder still, a fellow passenger's recklessness nearly cost Poppy her life.

One can only be happy that in the end everything went well and the brave teenager is safe at home again.

(le)

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Source: merkur

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