A 12-year-old boy died in hospital after suffering an allergic reaction from his family Christmas The dinner which had nuts, is heard in an inquiry.
Kaison Hallwood of Winsford was playing with friends when he started having trouble breathing and collapsed At the Wharton Recreation Ground – hours after having Christmas dinner last year with his mother, three brothers and his grandparents.
Despite the efforts of paramedics and doctors to administer Louise’s EpiPen to the schoolboy’s mother, as well as the efforts of paramedics and doctors, Casson, who suffered from asthma and was allergic to walnuts, walked away. respiration and then into cardiac arrest.
He was taken to the hospital, but he died a short time later.
Cason’s death investigation At Warrington Coroner’s Court, sitting in the par hall due to COVID-19 restrictions, Today Heard that his grandfather, a cook, had ‘forgotten’ about his allergies and that the glass used on the family’s gammon had nuts.
12-year-old Kaison Hallwood of Winsford died on Christmas Day last year after suffering an allergic reaction
Giving evidence at interrogation by the senior coroner for Cheshire Alan Moore, Casson’s mother said the family sat down to have dinner at around 2.25 pm before their son went to the park with his friends.
He said: ‘He was a livewire caisson, he didn’t want to sit and watch TV. He asked if he could go to the park with his companions. I said “call me if you need me” and with that he left
‘About 20 minutes later my phone went off and Cayson asked if I could send one of the boys with the inhaler. I didn’t panic at this point and one of the twins said they would go to Cayson’s bike.
‘He was back in about 10 minutes and he said he seemed fine. My phone went off again and this time I could tell that the inhaler didn’t work.’
The schoolboy’s mother described how she ran into the park with an EpiPen kept at the home of Casson’s grandparents, which she said was old.
‘I could tell immediately he had something because his eyes were swollen. The EpiPen I had was old. Was on a date at my house but my mom and dad didn’t,’ she said.
‘I was on the phone for an ambulance and asked permission to give it because it was old. I gave him a shot and it didn’t make any difference.
Lewis told how he There was ‘panic’ when the ambulance came and said there was a few minutes of confusion when the vehicle went to an entrance and then to the caisson before turning it over and transferring it to the ambulance.
Casson (second right) had Christmas dinner with his mother Lewis and three brothers (all pictured together) before going out to play with his friends at the Wharton Recreation Ground in Cheshire.
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She continued: ‘Caisson was saying ‘I can’t breathe, I’m going to pass out’ and I was yelling ‘Help him’. I then got out from the back of the ambulance, I don’t know why, I couldn’t take it anymore.’
Casson was taken to Leighton Hospital, with Lewis and his mother Helen traveling in another ambulance.
‘When we got there we were put in a family room and within minutes they said they were still working on it but it didn’t look good,’ Lewis said.
‘He said if there’s no sign of life, I’d have to go and say goodbye. I just couldn’t bear it but he told me that no one should die alone.
‘At this point I was in shock and didn’t know what was happening. They took me to the resume and I saw them working on it. I knew he was gone.’
In a written statement read by Mae Moore, Cason’s grandfather Albert said: ‘My wife and I had invited our grandchildren, including Lewis and Cason, to the house for Christmas dinner. There were other families too.
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‘I was cooking Christmas dinner and had prepared the night before – a beef joint and a gammon joint. I had completely forgotten about Caisson’s nut allergy.
‘We cooked and at 2 pm the whole family enjoyed our time around the table. I remember Casson licking his plate clean and saying “Grandpa that was cute”.
‘Casson went out to play with his teammates. About 45 minutes to an hour later, I was told by my wife, Helen, that Casson was in the park and could not breathe properly.
‘Helen asked me what I had done with the food. At this point I realized that the gammon glaze I used had nuts in it. I had completely forgotten about its nut content.
‘I told my wife that there were nuts in the glass. Realizing this my heart sank and I was just worried for Caison. As a family we are completely broken. Life will never be the same again.
During the interrogation, The family questioned how long it took paramedics to get to the scene and why the ambulance had moved from one entrance to another before entering the park to treat Casson.
The 999 call was received at 3.18 pm with the ambulance arriving at the park at 3.33 pm.
Alan Jeeves, a paramedic with the North West Ambulance Service, said: ‘We were on the way when Satnav was taking us, in a position where it was not the right entrance to the park.
‘When we reached the spot, a young man with a bike came near the ambulance and told us that there was another entrance. So me and the other paramedic got back in the ambulance and we were directed to the second entrance where the caisson was.’
Asked how long this confusion took him, Mr. Jeeves said: ‘No more than four or five minutes.’
He said he had become ‘combatant’ and ‘in a state of panic’ when he was trying to treat Casson, which Mr Jeeves put into hypoxia – a lack of oxygen in the body that causes the patient to become irrational. can work from. effect on the brain.
Paramedics treated Casson until about 4.27 p.m., when they took him to Leighton, arriving at the hospital at 4.39 p.m.
Inquiries heard that Casson was undergoing multiple treatments for his asthma and had to visit the doctor several times in 2020.
His nut allergy was first diagnosed more than ten years ago, and his mother, Louise, said she never kept ‘any nuts of any description’ in the house.
It was established in the investigation that the old EpiPen used on the caisson in the park would have caused him no harm, but may have had a debilitating effect.
A post-mortem concluded that Casson died as a result of anaphylactic fatal asthma caused by peanut ingestion, with bilateral pneumothorax (collapsed lung) as a contributing factor.
Mr Moore concluded that Casson had died as a result of an accident, adding: ‘I remember the case. I was the coroner on duty on Christmas Day when I made several calls. In that sense, I can join you if I can keep it that way.
‘That day, my heart really went out for you. I couldn’t even imagine what you would be going through as a family.
‘It’s a heart wrenching story. All I can say is that as a family you have displayed courage and dignity on a scale I have never seen before, not only today but also during last Christmas.’
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