UPDATED July 9, 2021 – Family tells Faines’ former employer, News4Jax, that she died from “food allergies”
You may believe this if you choose. A Yale-educated, 35-year-old, liberal woman, ate something that she’s allergic too and died of anaphylaxis (severe allergic reaction),
according to News4Jax, Faines’ former mainstream media employer. The report also says she had asthma.
A 2013 study published in the British journal
Clinical & Experimental Allergy concluded the following:
The incidence of fatal food anaphylaxis in food-allergic people is lower than accidental death in the general European population.
That means you have a better chance of dying (
according to insurance companies) in a car accident, falling down and breaking your skull, drowning in a swimming pool, etc. than from food anaphylaxis.
Peanut allergies are the most “common” food-related allergic reaction deaths in the world,
according to WebMD. Children are by far the most vulnerable to death from peanut and all other food allergies.
EIGHT (8) children died from all food allergic reactions
from 1991 to 2001. Four of those were from milk allergies.
Coincidentally or otherwise, the foregoing data show a slight increase in the risk of death from food allergies for victims with asthma. But that’s because asthma was a comorbidity in three of the
eight deaths in that 10-year span. News4Jax reported that Ms. Faines suffered from asthma.
Eleven (11) people
died from peanut allergies in 2005. The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) also ranked peanuts as the
most “deadly” food allergy. The most generous estimate for deaths by food allergies is also from the AAAI –
150 per year.
So if you want to believe Yale-educated Ms. Faines died from food allergies, more power to you.
