13-year-old girl dies after drinking hot chocolate

Hannah Jacobs, a 13-year-old girl with severe allergies to dairy, fish and eggs, died hours after drinking a hot chocolate drink. Costa Coffee shop in London.

Abimbola Duyile, the victim’s mother, told an east London coroner’s court that she told the staff aDuyile spoke about her daughter’s severe allergy to dairy and requested that they clean the equipment to avoid cross-contamination. Duyile said she was “extremely demanding” because of the severity of her daughter’s allergies.

“I made sure the staff were aware that this was not a joke,” the mother said, according to The Telegraph.

Costa’s policy states that when customers disclose their dietary restrictions, workers must show them a book This includes the ingredients and details on how the drink is prepared. Urmi Akter, the employee who took the order, said she did not show Duyile the book.

“I didn’t show the book to the mother because she told me that washing the jug was a good thing. I thought that she, as a mother, would know more about it,” Akter said, according to BBC News.

Akter was reportedly told she did not have to answer questions if she felt they incriminated her. She was accompanied by a Bengali interpreter during her testimony. She declined to say whether she had received training in her native language or had taken any advanced courses. When asked if she knew what an allergen was, Akter declined to answer.

Akter claims the mother ordered an extra hot chocolate and a regular hot chocolate and did not ask for soy milk. She only asked that the milk jug be cleaned between each preparation.

Forensic analysis of the coffee cups found no traces of soy milk, but “substantial levels” of milk proteins.

After purchasing the drinks, the mother and daughter went to a nearby dentist. The 13-year-old girl took a sip of the drink and immediately had an allergic reaction.

Hannah then went to a pharmacy and was given a 150mcg adrenaline auto-injector pen, a dosage recommended for children six and under. Hannah’s doctor said it was difficult to predict whether she would have survived if she had been given the recommended dose of 300 mcg.

“150mcg was certainly too low a dose to administer,” he told the court, according to The Herald.