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Parents speak out after boy dies from smell of cooking fish in Brooklyn
Source: WABC-TV
Parents speak out after boy dies from smell of cooking fish in Brooklyn
Thursday, January 03, 2019 01:27PM
BROOKLYN, New York -- An 11-year-old boy died in Brooklyn Tuesday after authorities believe he had an allergic reaction to seafood that was being cooked at the time.
The medical examiner will determine the official cause of death for Cameron Jean-Pierre, who was found unconscious and unresponsive around 7:30 p.m on East 82nd Street in Canarsie.
"Terrible thing," dad Steven Jean-Pierre said. "For me, my son was a leader, ambitious... My son was loved by everybody. Anytime somebody came across my son, they loved him."
The boy's mother, Jody Pottingr, tells ABC News that the family moved from Brooklyn to Piscataway, New Jersey, two years ago, but that the boy was visiting his grandparents for the holidays.
"He went to his grandma, which is my mom, just to wish her a happy New Year and just to let her know that he loved her," she said. ""He went back to 82nd Street, where his dad's mom and the aunt were cooking what they call in the Caribbean household 'salt fish.'"
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Thursday, January 03, 2019 01:27PM
BROOKLYN, New York -- An 11-year-old boy died in Brooklyn Tuesday after authorities believe he had an allergic reaction to seafood that was being cooked at the time.
The medical examiner will determine the official cause of death for Cameron Jean-Pierre, who was found unconscious and unresponsive around 7:30 p.m on East 82nd Street in Canarsie.
"Terrible thing," dad Steven Jean-Pierre said. "For me, my son was a leader, ambitious... My son was loved by everybody. Anytime somebody came across my son, they loved him."
The boy's mother, Jody Pottingr, tells ABC News that the family moved from Brooklyn to Piscataway, New Jersey, two years ago, but that the boy was visiting his grandparents for the holidays.
"He went to his grandma, which is my mom, just to wish her a happy New Year and just to let her know that he loved her," she said. ""He went back to 82nd Street, where his dad's mom and the aunt were cooking what they call in the Caribbean household 'salt fish.'"
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Read more: https://abc13.com/asthmatic-boy-dies-from-smell-of-cooking-fish/5010026/
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Source: Washington Post
Child with food allergy dies after inhaling fish fumes, father says
By Lindsey Bever January 3 at 3:09 PM
Cod was cooking on the stove when 11-year-old Cameron Jean-Pierre arrived at his grandmother’s home in New York.
Cameron, who had a known allergy to seafood, started to wheeze during the visit this week, so his father said he reached for his son’s asthma medication. But this time, the nebulizer machine that Cameron had used during allergy attacks in the past, did not seem to be working — the young boy could not breathe in the air, his father said.
“That’s when I called 911,” his father, Steven Jean-Pierre, said Thursday in a phone interview with The Washington Post. Jean-Pierre said his son was gasping, saying: “I love you, Daddy. I love you. I feel like I’m dying.”
He was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
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By Lindsey Bever January 3 at 3:09 PM
Cod was cooking on the stove when 11-year-old Cameron Jean-Pierre arrived at his grandmother’s home in New York.
Cameron, who had a known allergy to seafood, started to wheeze during the visit this week, so his father said he reached for his son’s asthma medication. But this time, the nebulizer machine that Cameron had used during allergy attacks in the past, did not seem to be working — the young boy could not breathe in the air, his father said.
“That’s when I called 911,” his father, Steven Jean-Pierre, said Thursday in a phone interview with The Washington Post. Jean-Pierre said his son was gasping, saying: “I love you, Daddy. I love you. I feel like I’m dying.”
He was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2019/01/03/child-with-food-allergy-dies-after-inhaling-fish-fumes-father-says/
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