A Winnipeg woman has filed a lawsuit against Tim Hortons after suffering a severe allergic reaction to tea laced with cow’s milk that turned into a heart attack. Winnipeg Free Press.
According to a summary of facts filed in the Court of King’s Bench in Manitoba, the 25-year-old woman ordered tea with almond milk at a Tim Hortons app on June 7.
After returning to work with the drink, she immediately felt an allergic reaction from her first sip. A young woman with a severe allergy to bovine protein called her mother, who helped administer an EpiPen before a colleague took her to the hospital.
The woman eventually lost consciousness and went into cardiac arrest. Medical personnel had to perform eight minutes of CPR to save the victim, who suffered significant neurological injuries.
Among other effects, his heart stopped — and oxygenation to his brain stopped — causing seizures, paralysis on his left side, headaches, vision loss and numbness. , which is listed in the legal claim.
In a video posted online by a relative of the young woman on social media and on the GofundMe platform, Especially we can see in the hospital that the young woman needs the support of two people to walk.
These allegations have not been proven in court.
Requested by Winnipeg Free PressTim Hortons declined to comment because the case is before the courts, but assured that it takes food allergies seriously.
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