Our hearts are broken and we are still in shock. Our whole
lives we dedicated to keeping our child safe from one ingredient, peanuts.
On Monday June 25, our 15 year old daughter, Alexi Ryann
Stafford, while at a friends house, made a fatal choice. There was an open
package of Chips Ahoy cookies, the top flap of the package was pulled back and
the packaging was too similar to what we had previously deemed “safe” to her.
She ate one cookie of chewy Chips Ahoy thinking it was safe because of the
“red” packaging, only to find out too late that there was an added
ingredient.... Reese peanut butter cups/chips. She started feeling tingling in
her mouth and came straight home. Her condition rapidly deteriorated. She went
into Anaphylactic shock, stopped breathing and went unconscious. We
administered 2 epi pens while she was conscious and waited on paramedics for
what felt like an eternity.
She died within 1& 1/2 hour of eating the cookie.
As a mother who diligently taught her the ropes of what was
okay to ingest and what was not, I feel lost and angry because she knew her
limits and was aware of familiar packaging, she knew what “safe” was. A small
added indication on the pulled back flap on a familiar red package wasn’t
enough to call out to her that there was “peanut product” in the cookies before
it was too late. I want to share our story with everyone because we want to
spread awareness. The company has different colored packaging to indicate
chunky, chewy, or regular but NO screaming warnings about such a fatal
ingredient to many people. Especially children.
It’s important to us to spread awareness so that this
horrible mistake doesn’t happen again.
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https://www.facebook.com/ktraversstafford/posts/10156328174096271
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2018/07/16/moms-heartbreaking-warning-after-daughters-fatal-allergic-reaction-to-cookie.html
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