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Dec. 22 RALEIGH Brooke Navarro knows how easily a food allergy can change someone s life.
One almost killed her mother, a school cafeteria worker.
While working in the school s kitchen, she unknowingly came into contact with the remnants of a batch of peanut butter cookies. It sent her into an anaphylactic shock that four EpiPens couldn t tame.
By the time Navarro reached her at the hospital, doctors had intubated her mother and she was in a coma. Thank God she woke up 48 hours later, Navarro said. So when people say, they re just food allergies, I am like, No, my mom literally just about died.