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Nearly a month afterBethenny Frankelhad anear-fatal allergic reaction to eating fish, she’s still dealing with its aftermath.
TheReal Housewives of New Yorkstar, 48, says she’s having trouble with her memory and vision, and she went to her Twitter followers for advice.
“Well tweeps, you’re usually smarter than anyone and I keep researching and cannot find out. Can anaphylactic shock affect memory or vision afterwards? I had 20/20 [vision] and it does not appear to be the case now,”she wrote. “I am getting it all checked out this week but you have all the answers.”
Epinephrine, the chemical in EpiPens that opens airways and tightens blood vessels, may cause blurred vision in some people after being injected, and anyone who experiences the side effect should talk to their doctor immediately,according to the Mayo Clinic.
Frankel, who has a rare fish allergy, experienced the traumatic allergic reaction in mid-December after eating a bowl of soup that unknowingly contained fish products. The Skinnygirl founder tweeted after the incident that she started to itch and went unconscious for 15 minutesbefore her boyfriend Paul Bernon “saved my life”with the EpiPen.
“I couldn’t talk, see, thought I had a stroke and dying and told if 5 mins later I’d be dead,” she tweeted. “911 and [EpiPen] saved me.”
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Frankel faced another potentially threatening allergy experience on Jan. 3, whenshe boarded a plane on which fish was being served, despite the fact that she had called the airline ahead of time to check.
“Called airline [multiple times] to say I have fish allergy. Got on and they’re serving bass,” shetweeted. “They couldn’t not serve it they said. Then they were turning around which I protested [because] it would delay people. Cabin asked to not serve it and pilot made announcement to plane. That was fun. #epilife”
Frankel later explained to her followers that just being in the same airspace as cooked fish could trigger an allergic reaction, which is why she couldn’t be on that flight.
“Being trapped in a cabin [with] no windows [with] cooking fish is a death trap,” she continued. “The airlines and world needs to change. I was always self-conscious about it and today didn’t help.”
Frankel also retweeted a story about an11-year-old boy who possibly died of an allergic reactionfrom the smell of cooking fish on New Year’s Day.
source: people.com
