But on this tragic day, 15-year-old Alexi was at a friend’s house when the two decided to have a snack. Alexi accepted a Chips Ahoy cookie out of the package that her friend offered her; the foil wrapper had been folded back and, according to Kellie, her daughter had neglected to read the label because “the packaging was too similar to what we had previously deemed ‘safe’ to her.”
“She ate one cookie of chewy Chips Ahoy thinking it was safe because of the ‘red’ packaging, only to find out too late that there was an added ingredient. … Reese peanut butter cups/chips,” Kellie wrote.
Immediately, Alexi started to feel a tingling sensation in her mouth that signaled the something was seriously wrong. Worried, she came straight home to her parents house, but her condition worsened quickly. “She went into Anaphylactic shock, stopped breathing and went unconscious,” Kellie wrote. “We administered 2 epi pens while she was conscious and waited on paramedics for what felt like an eternity.”
But her efforts ended up being for naught. In less than an hour and a half, Alexi died from her food allergy.
In her post, she argued that “the company has different colored packaging to indicate chunky, chewy, or regular but NO screaming warnings about such a fatal ingredient to many people. Especially children. It’s important to us to spread awareness so that this horrible mistake doesn’t happen again.”
She urged parents to be mindful of the foods that they give their kids and even had a specific request from the company that made the food that killed her girl: change your packaging.
