14 DAY TRIAL // Not long ago, doctors at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in the US somehow managed to save the life of a 2-year-old girl who nearly died after eating a run-of-the-mil orange.
When she got her hands on the fruit, the girl was out shopping with her family. While in a supermarket in Pennsylvania, she simply grabbed the orange and ate it. At first, nothing happened.
However, just minutes after the girl was done eating the fruit, her tongue and her lips swelled. What's more, her airways closed up, making it downright impossible for the 2-year-old to breathe on her own.
As explained by the doctors who handled this case, what happened was that, as surprising as this may sound, the girl developed a severe allergic reaction to the orange.
At first, the girl's family rushed her to a local emergency room. When specialists here failed to help her, a helicopter was called in and the toddler was sent to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
Here, doctors treated her with a drug dubbed epinephrine, and once the swelling began to subside, intubated her. In a couple of days, the girl recovered and her parents were given permission to take her back home.
Although allergic reactions to oranges have been reported before, this was by far one of the worst ever documented. Thus, most of the people who are allergic to oranges merely get an itchy mouth when eating such fruit, Live Science informs.
Apparently, this 2-year-old girl that was nearly killed by an orange was also suffering from asthma. It is believed that it was this underlying condition that made her allergic reaction way worse than it would have otherwise been.