Teenage boy dies after severe allergic reaction to peanut butter

A teenage boy with a severe peanut allergy ended up in a coma for a week after suffering an allergic reaction to a peanut and died Wednesday night at a hospital, according to reports.

Chandler Swink, 19, a sophomore and aspiring nursing student, had been hospitalized since Nov. 18, when he came in contact with peanut butter at a friend's house.

He was found unconscious in the  St. Joseph Mercy Oakland Hospital in Pontiac parking lot the next day after driving himself there.

Doctors told Swink's relatives that he simultaneously suffered anaphylactic shock, an asthma attack and cardiac arrest.

"No matter the time or where he was, he would come to my side," freshman Julia Douglas said about her close friend, Chandler Swink, an OU sophomore, Huntington Ford scholar and aspiring nursing student, according to the Oakland Post Online.

Chandler, diagnosed with a level six severe nut allergy since age 2, has been in a coma in intensive care at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Pontiac since Tuesday, Nov. 18 after suffering a severe allergic reaction.

"It's been tough on all of us the past few days," said Chandler's cousin, Mike. "It's brought our family closer but we miss him so much."

As he began to react, Chandler went to his car to inject himself with an EpiPen and drove to the hospital.

"When he got [to the hospital] at 12:35 a.m., he dropped...outside the hospital," said Mike. "He was supposedly dead for twenty minutes, but he's a fighter, always has been."

According to the Press, Chandler was found unconscious around 1 a.m. Tuesday in the parking lot of St. Joseph Mercy Oakland.

A GoFundMe page has been set up for the teen's family here: https://www.gofundme.com/hpczrc.