Police in Kentucky are investigating after an 8-year-old boy died after consuming strawberries from a faculty fundraiser.
The Madisonville Police Division stated officers had been referred to as to a house round 6:30 a.m. Friday for an 8-year-old boy who was having bother respiratory and was unresponsive.
His mother and father advised authorities that on Thursday he “had eaten a number of strawberries from a highschool fundraiser the evening earlier than.”
On Thursday, the younger boy started experiencing signs and his mother and father gave him benadryl and soaked him in a shower.
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After his signs continued to worsen, his household took him to a native emergency room round 10:30 p.m. Thursday, however introduced him again house hours later.
Police stated the household referred to as authorities after they tried to wake him up for college Friday morning however discovered him unresponsive.
After the boy’s dying, the Hopkins County Well being Division stated {that a} preliminary post-mortem report dominated that it was an “remoted allergic response.”
“Dr. Christopher Kiefer, Medical Examiner, stated the incident involving strawberries seems to be like an remoted allergic response,” Denise Seashore, the Director for the Hopkins County Well being Division, stated. “He relates that it is a preliminary report, so we nonetheless advise not consuming the strawberries at the moment.”
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Authorities didn’t say if the boy had preexisting allergy symptoms to strawberries.
The division warned the neighborhood to not eat any strawberries that we bought the Madisonville North Hopkins Excessive College and Hopkins County Central Excessive College athletics.
The well being division stated that there have been 443 flats distributed by North and 535 flats distributed by Central. The strawberries had been distributed by Juicy Fruit LLC, Southern Grown and Sizemore Farms.
“Presently, the Division of Public Well being Environmentalists are taking samples of the strawberries to the state lab for testing,” the well being division stated.
The boy’s id has not been launched.
Fox Information has reached out to Juicy Fruit LLC, Southern Grown and Sizemore Farms for remark.