{"id":1401,"date":"2023-05-30T12:34:39","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T19:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=1401"},"modified":"2024-12-28T21:24:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T05:24:25","slug":"passenger-says-delta-airlines-failed-to-respond-to-her-medical-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2023\/05\/30\/passenger-says-delta-airlines-failed-to-respond-to-her-medical-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"Passenger says airline failed to respond to her medical emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Sara Metzger says she gave herself two EpiPen injections after other passengers ate nuts [almonds] and that a Delta crew ignored her emergency-landing pleas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/woman-had-anaphylaxis-delta-flight-didnt-make-an-emergency-landing-2023-5\">Woman Says Flight Crew Served Nuts After She Warned Them of Her Allergy<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I am also allergic to almonds, although I think I would have to ingest almonds to have a significant reaction &#8211; not merely sit by people consuming almonds.<\/p>\n<p>She says the airline&#8217;s medical group advised an emergency landing but a passenger who was a cardiologist didn&#8217;t think that was necessary, so the airline continued on to the destination. The affected passenger said she used two Epi-Pens to control her reaction.<\/p>\n<p>I carry two Epi-Pens, prednisone tablets, Benadryl tablets, and Pepcid-AC (can reduce nausea sometimes caused by high dose of prednisone).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sara Metzger says she gave herself two EpiPen injections after other passengers ate nuts [almonds] and that a Delta crew ignored her emergency-landing pleas. Source: Woman Says Flight Crew Served&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}