College student suffers fatal allergic reaction after being given brownie by friend

A friend’s brownie caused an allergic reaction that resulted in the death of a Wisconsin college student.

After eating a brownie that apparently contained roasted peanut flour, Hannah Glass, a freshman at Maranatha Baptist University, experienced a deadly allergic reaction.

The 19-year-old became aware that something was off after taking a few nibbles. Her father told WISN that although Benadryl appeared to help, “after a few seconds of laying down, things changed dramatically.”

“Looking back, the right lung collapsed at this point,” he stated.

Glass’s friend from a university women’s organization had given her the brownie, which was cooked with the gluten-free student alternative flour.

Glass was still able to breathe and talk clearly while on the phone with her parents, despite having vomited and developed a rash, according to a Facebook post.

She lay on her stomach while her symptoms subsided after taking the Benadryl.

Glass complained of severe dyspnea and curled into the fetal position when she attempted to stand.

Before receiving her EpiPen, she fell off the ladder from her bed and passed out.

Hannah Glass, 19, just had a few bites of a brownie made with toasted peanut flour before she developed a deadly allergic reaction.

A buddy on college had given her the brownie, and she was recuperating in the hospital after taking Benadryl when her lung collapsed.

The teenager’s heart stopped beating for four minutes while paramedics attempted to revive her.

After that, she was brought to Watertown Hospital and then sent to Froedtert Hospital for more care.

She experienced seizures, “severe brain swelling,” and was placed on a ventilator during her transit.

Her family posted on Facebook that “the majority of her brain was unmistakably, seriously, critically, and without the life-sustaining measures in place, TERMINALLY damaged.”

We chose to donate her body to give others the opportunity to live the life she had lost, but that was the only real option that needed to be made at this time.

And to spare other parents or loved ones from going through what we went through last week.

“I have a mental mountain made up of the events of the last few days.” I felt as like I couldn’t see past them to even the events of the previous week because they were so intense, so bizarre, and so physically taxing.

In the surgery room, she was led on the customary ‘Honor Walk’ before to her body being donated.

According to a statement from the university, Glass was “an exceptional student and a sweet-spirited servant in her church, with a heart for reaching souls with the gospel.”

During her first year on college and at the Academy, where she was doing her fieldwork in education, she had a significant influence.

She created a GiveSendGo fundraiser to help her family, and it has raised almost $28,000 so far.

College was “Hannah’s big dream and passionate goal for years,” according to her grandma, who also wrote: “The hole that Hannah leaves can never be filled.” We shall treasure her memories till we see her in heaven.

Glass was able to provide four individuals with life-saving transplants after her passing.