11-Year-Old Dies Following Allergic Reaction To The Smell Of Cooking Fish

An 11-year-old boy died after suffering an allergic reaction to the smell of cooking fish. Cameron Jean-Pierre was in New York City visiting family members with his dad, Steven, when he began to have trouble breathing moments after entering his grandmother's house and smelling the "salt fish" that was being cooked. 

“We knew he had an allergy… but usually, he don’t get nothing that severe like that,” Steven told the New York Daily News. “He don’t eat fish. We don’t put it around him. It just so happens they was cooking it when we came in.”

His dad got Cameron his nebulizer, thinking his son was having an asthma attack. When that failed to help, he began to perform CPR on Cameron.

“It felt like he had no pulse,” Jean-Pierre said. “I tried to give him the CPR and he came back but I wish I knew (how) to keep pumping him because he woke up and I felt his heart and everything. But I stopped and sat him up to make him feel better.”

Unfortunately, Cameron fell unconscious again and doctors were unable to save him. Steven recounted his heartbreaking final moment with his son to ABC News.

"My son's last words were, 'Daddy, I love you, daddy I love you,'" he said. "He gave me two kisses, two kisses on my face. He said, 'I feel like I'm dying.' I said, 'Don't say that. What are you talking about? Don't say that.'"