Football players “deliberately put peanuts in severely allergic teammate’s locker”
An EpiPen delivers emergency doses of epinephrine in cases of severe allergic reactions, per the Mayo Clinic.
“Anaphylaxis needs to be treated right away with an injection of epinephrine,” they write. “If it isn’t treated right away, it can be deadly.”
Shawna explained: “They were kind of joking around about it and they said, ‘But could it kill you if it touched you?’ And he says, ‘Yeah, it absolutely could.’ If it got in his nose, eyes, or mouth, that’s where it would go into anaphylactic shock. And so he told them, ‘Yes, it could absolutely kill me.’
“Then, the next day before the game, they went in and they had put peanuts in his locker, on his jersey, and in his cleats.
“It was a can of peanuts that they just kind of scattered throughout his locker and put in his cleats.”
Carter experienced an immediate reaction, developing hives on his arm. Incredibly, the boys involved in pulling the prank faced no discipline outside of being benched for two days, being forced to switch locker rooms, and doing extra runs at practise.
Instead, Shawna claims Carter faced backlash.
“There was a lot of verbal retaliation…,” she said. “There was one point where someone in the locker room put a peanut butter granola bar in his backpack.”
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