Five-year-old boy died from allergic reaction after collapsing at school, inquest told
An investigation, a five -year -old child, described as “gentle”, died tragically after a severe allergic reaction after collapsing in the primary school.
Benedict Blythe, who was the first year of the Barnack Primary School in Stamford, Lincolnshire, died in the hospital on December 1, 2021 after an incident in Kusta.
His mother Helen Blythe testified in the first day of the investigation at the Peterborough Town Hall. “Benedict wasn’t just a child with allergies, but also a whole universe – curious, funny, gentle and loving – the world should have been safer for him.”
According to Coroner Elizabeth Gray, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough region, Benedict, who knows milk, eggs and some hazelnut allergies, was recorded as food -based anaphylaxis.
Mrs Gray said to the jury: “Benedict was five years old during his death.
“He experienced a series of allergies, including asthma and milk and egg allergy.”
Benedict had more than one allergy and asthma (family note)
The investigation heard that Benedict was kept away from school on November 30 because he heard that he was uncomfortable the previous night and went to school normally on December 1.
Coroner said that Benedict brought from home on that school day and then offered oat milk by a class teacher, but refused to drink.
Later, his family was called to get him, but he vomited for the second time, and he was taken out for the fresh air he was “collapsed”.
A Adrenaline Auto-Instructor (AAI) was implemented by a teaching assistant trained by the first AID, but Benedict “does not respond” before CPR tried.
Emergency service was called, but the school child died at the Peterborough City hospital that day.
Benedict’s mother, who gave evidence of the investigation, said that the first symptom of vomiting for jury was “always ,, but how it was played after that”.
He told the school that a management plan was given about his allergic reactions and the things that we know as a family and their parents ”.
In a witness statement read to the investigation, Mrs Blythe said that Benedict’s allergic reactions are “good awareness :: orum I believe there is an allergic reaction, and that’s what causes his death.”
He added that Benedict was “waking up normal and healthy without temperature or cough that morning.
When he found out that Benedict was uncomfortable, he told me to feel “horrified”.
The school was ‘healthy’ before the school child died, the investigation Heard (family warehouse/pa) (family mining)
The investigation heard that Benedict was not a “adventurous ve with food, but that it was“ increasingly worried ıyla to ask if things were involved in milk because of previous allergic reactions.
A Consultant Pediatrician Dr. Emilia Wawrzkowicz said that the first post -death examination report recorded the cause of death as an asthma, but it felt “very strong” that it was caused by anaphylaxis.
He said to the court: “The original report after Mortem concluded in the balance of possibilities that the cause of death was asthma. I do not agree with this. I was shocked to see this.”
One of the reasons why this believes was that he was “never a proposal to compromise”.
The Benedict jury was shown a video that opened the Advent calendar before school with his little sister on the day he died.
Mrs. Blythe said that the chocolate she ate from the Advent calendar did not contain milk.
He also read a portrait of a pen in the investigation: “Fast -minded and gentle, Benedict’s love for ‘game numbers’ was a clue to why he participated Mensa When he was four years old.
“His superpower was his gentle heart, and the kindness that was more missing than our lives.
“After his death, the first return to a new school year, the children ‘Benedict was here – he would prevent me from feeling tense’ he said.
“In addition to the joy of Benedict in his life, he had to improve his silent courage.
“He lived with allergies and chronic asthma, and sometimes it meant that parties could eat, eat in ice cream minibus – he could eat in ice cream minibus – but he never allowed him to define him.
“The day Benedict died, our world is broken, but even more unbearable, the information we are not alone.
“Benedict wasn’t just a child with allergies, but also a whole universe – curious, funny, gentle and loving – the world should be safer for him.”
It was founded in memory of the Benedict Blythe Foundation and with the Allergy Team and the Association of Independent Schools (ISBA), it launched the school allergy code to protect children with allergies last year and to determine how schools can keep students safe.
The investigation, which is expected to last for two weeks, continues.
