A nine-year-old girl died from an allergic reaction after taking a single bite of a pancake her father had cooked for her.
Nainika Tikoo, who was allergic to dairy, asked her father, Vinod, to add blackberries to her dairy-free pancakes on the morning of 20 May. She had never tried the fruit before.
But after taking just one bite of her breakfast, the schoolgirl turned "completely blue" and passed out.
Her father immediately tried to treat her with an Epipen and paramedics arrived at her home in Harrow, northwest London, within seven minutes.
Nainika suffered a cardiac arrest. She died days later in hospital after her family took the decision to withdraw life support.
Her mother Lakshmi Kaul said her daughter's death was a "nightmare we will live and relive every single moment of our lives remaining".
"We knew she was allergic to dairy and she had asthma so we looked after that for the last 9 years," she wrote on a Just Giving page set up to raise funds for allergy research in the wake of the tragedy. "We had only one major incident in these 9 years with a few minor incidents intermittently.
Nainika Tikoo, who was allergic to dairy, asked her father, Vinod, to add blackberries to her dairy-free pancakes on the morning of 20 May. She had never tried the fruit before.
But after taking just one bite of her breakfast, the schoolgirl turned "completely blue" and passed out.
Her father immediately tried to treat her with an Epipen and paramedics arrived at her home in Harrow, northwest London, within seven minutes.
Nainika suffered a cardiac arrest. She died days later in hospital after her family took the decision to withdraw life support.
Her mother Lakshmi Kaul said her daughter's death was a "nightmare we will live and relive every single moment of our lives remaining".
"We knew she was allergic to dairy and she had asthma so we looked after that for the last 9 years," she wrote on a Just Giving page set up to raise funds for allergy research in the wake of the tragedy. "We had only one major incident in these 9 years with a few minor incidents intermittently.