Florida Boy, 7, Has Severe Asthma Attack After Eating

A mom whose 7-yr-antique son had an bronchial asthma attack after consuming candy from a mall kiosk is warning other dad and mom about the dangers of the treat.

Racheal Richard McKenny of St. Augustine, Florida, posted on Facebook that her son Johnny had a terrifying response to “Dragon’s Breath” — a liquid nitrogen-lined cereal-like candy that makes smoke pop out of a consumer’s nose and mouth — after attempting it remaining week at The Avenues mall in Jacksonville, Florida.

In the submit, McKenny stated Johnny, who has bronchial asthma, started out coughing 10 mins into the own family’s 40-minute pressure home.

“Around 20 mins in, the cough have become simply constant,” McKenny wrote. “He changed into coughing so bad that he became having hassle catching his breath. We knew he couldn’t breathe, and we knew that we couldn’t get him to the clinic in time.”

The McKennys observed a hearth station, where the firefighters gave Johnny albuterol, an IV and an epinephrine injection earlier than taking him to the health facility. Johnny is now getting better at domestic.

“With liquid nitrogen, you're setting a burst of actually cold gasoline into your mouth,” says PEOPLE Health Squad’s Pediatrician Dr. Elizabeth Murray. “In fashionable, a sudden publicity to very bloodless (or once in a while very warm) air can cause someone to wheeze. Anyone with asthma will constantly be better off avoiding any kind of smoke and very bloodless or very warm air.”

“Even in case you don’t have asthma it can be very, very inflammatory or tense to the airway and your esophagus and your stomach, all of that,” said Dr. Sunil Joshi of Family Allergy Asthma Consultants to nearby news station FOX30.

McKenny knows her own family turned into fortunate, but issued this warning to different mother and father: “PLEASE, if you understand someone that has even just a slight case of asthma, do NOT let them have this snack. I must have recognized better, but it did no longer occur to me that this meals ought to have this effect. As a end result, my son could have died. Please don’t make the identical mistake I did.”

According to CBS47 and FOX30, the manager of the kiosk placed up a sign that warns allergies and hypersensitivity patients about the sweet within the aftermath of Johnny’s reaction.


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