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be working. He was rubbing his eyes and wheezing for air and sneezing.
“The EpiPen was not working, even when Curtis gave him another shot.
“Omar’s eyes started to swell up. After seven shots of adrenaline we knew we needed to get him to hospital.” In A&E, doctors told the horrified parents that Omar needed putting in a coma to protect him while he battled the reaction.
For 24 hours it was touch and go as medics fought to keep the youngster stable. Thankfully he pulled through, and doctors were happy to bring him out of the coma. After spending three more days in hospital, he was allowed to go home.
Aisha and Curtis promptly binned the bag of treats.
Aisha added: “I’m still in shock about Omar’s awful ordeal. I can’t believe it was our chocolate craving that nearly killed our precious baby. We are more careful than ever about what food we allow in the house.”
Though the mum added: “But I will never forget the guilt of watching my little boy fighting for his life.”
Aisha and Curtis had another little boy, Zayn, in August last year. Aisha, of Wembley, northwest London, added: “We were over the moon with our little bundle of joy.
“But I worried that Zayn would share the same health problems as his brothers.
“It didn’t take long for us to find out and already, our new addition is showing similar symptoms to Isaac and Omar’s allergies. “It’s so severe that I have even had to cut out certain foods while I am breastfeeding.” Recent figures suggest as many as two in every 100 children under four are allergic to dairy.
The most common form is an aversion to cows’ milk, affecting 7.5% of babies under 12 months. Most grow out of it by the age of five. Lactose intolerance is also common – which is when the body cannot digest a natural sugar found in milk. Symptoms of an allergy to dairy include rashes, stomach pain, vomiting, diarrhoea and disruption of breathing and any severe example of the symptoms should be treated as a medical emergency. A MAN put a dead tortoise under his pillow to banish an “evil spirit” who he claims made him a sex slave in South Africa.