A woman has died after using a spoonful of milk scraps to stir tea shortly after her boyfriend she was traveling with in South Africa proposed marriage. Jess was the victim of an acute allergic attack caused by her lactose intolerance.
She and thenboyfriend Craig got engaged on December 27 at a wellknown tourist spot in the town of Mpumalanga. After enjoying a moment alone, the pair traveled to Johannesburg, where the young woman’s mother lived and a visit to the woman’s home on December 30 ended in the accident, leaving Jess dead on December 31 after one day caused in the hospital.
“A lot of her family members live in South Africa and she hadn’t visited them in six years, so I knew there wasn’t a better place to propose to her she even said yes,” recalled Craig McKinnon, the fiancé of Jess Prinsloo, opposite British tabloid Mirror.
After celebrating with “a lot of sparkling wine and joy”, the two visited the mother of the bride and took the opportunity to drink tea. Jess, who worked as a marketing executive, carried antiallergy pills in case she accidentally consumed a dairy product, but the medication wasn’t enough to stave off anaphylactic shock.
“When she died, a part of me died too, but I can’t blame anyone for her death,” the young woman’s partner said.
Despite Britons having died at the end of 2022, Craig only returned to Britain yesterday, taking home the bride’s ashes. The two met at the university where they were studying in 2019 and decided to live together in 2021 during the Covid19 isolation.
Commenting on the lack of effect of the antiallergy medications Jess used, the boy said he believed the young woman’s repeated bouts over the years had had a “cumulative effect” on her body. She was diagnosed with lactose intolerance at the age of nine months and had already told her fiancé that she had resurrected at the age of 18 after ingesting milk used in an Indian dish.
“On another occasion, she ordered a vegan dessert that was supposed to be dairyfree and still required medication and hospital treatment. I stopped eating dairy three years ago because it wasn’t worth the risk.” now wants to educate others about the risks of allergies. “It’s something people can’t control and it could kill them. I just want people to hear it and understand how dangerous it is.”