Mum’s heartbreaking warning after daughter’s fatal allergic reaction to cookie

ALEXI Stafford ate a seemingly harmless cookie - and 90 minutes later, she was dead. Her mother has a chilling warning for other parents.

Alexi’s mother Kellie said her daughter was at a friend’s house when she made a ‘fatal choice’.

A MUM in the US has posted a warning to others with food allergies, after her teen daughter reportedly died from a reaction to a cookie she had at a friend’s house.

Kellie Travers-Stafford, from Weston, Florida, said that she’s “still in shock” over the peanut-allergy death of her 15-year-old daughter, Alexi Stafford.

Posting to Facebook, she said her daughter was at a friend’s house on June 25 when she made a “fatal choice”.

Alexi Stafford, left, died after she consumed a cookie that contained nuts.

“There was an open package of Chips Ahoy cookies [of which] the top flap of the package was pulled back and the packaging was too similar to what we had previously deemed ‘safe’ to her,” the mum wrote on Facebook. “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.”

The teen’s mouth immediately started tingling, so she returned home, but her condition rapidly started to worsen, according to her mum.

Her family administered two EpiPen shots, but she went into anaphylactic shock and stopped breathing.

Her mum is still in shock over the teen’s death.

The teen died within 90 minutes of eating the cookie.

“As a mother who diligently taught her the ropes of what was okay to ingest and what was not, I feel lost and angry because she knew her limits and was aware of familiar packaging, she knew what ‘safe’ was,” her mum said.

This article originally appeared on the New York Post and has been republished with permission.