Teen Dies After Taking One Sip Of Pina Colada Cocktail

A teen boy has been reported dead after allegedly taking a sip of his friend’s pina colada cocktail while vacationing in Costa del Sol, Spain.

Eighteen-year-old Shiv Mistry, who was set to attend Clare College at Cambridge University to study medicine, reportedly collapsed and “fell to the floor” after he took a sip of a piña colada cocktail that his friend was drinking during their vacation in Costa del Sol, Spain, New York Post reported.

Shiv, who was deathly allergic to dairy products, reportedly went into anaphylactic shock soon after he consumed the cocktail. He was seemingly unaware that the barman had swapped out the coconut cream in the drink with cow’s milk cream.

According to the boy's uncle, Kalpesh Mistry, the boy had lived with a dairy allergy since he was a young child.

After he took a sip of the cocktail, he realized he’d consumed something with dairy. Sweaty and hyperventilating, he managed to take cetirizine, a powerful antihistamine. He then went to the bathroom to vomit. As he grew weak, Shiv requested a friend to call the emergency services, the Daily Mail reported.

After vomiting, he then asked for an EpiPen and an inhaler. However, he quickly slumped to the floor after. His friends administered CPR for 20 minutes while “someone called his parents on WhatsApp to tell them what had happened.”

When Shiv’s breathing became more and more labored, his friends used a second EpiPen. After emergency services arrived, they used a defibrillator. Even though his friends and medics tried to administer life-saving measures, Shiv was pronounced brain stem dead on July 8.

The coroner declared an accident as the cause of death.

“Shiv was a wonderful lad — kind, caring, humorous, and very able. He had a place at Cambridge to study medicine. What a fine doctor he would have made,” the headmaster Philip Wayne of the Royal Grammar School where Shiv attended tweeted after his death.

“Shiv was lucky, he had friends who were medically aware and could apply CPR — however, there will be young people going on holiday with friends with no medical knowledge at all,” Shiv's father, Judgish Mistry, said.

“Schools should give medical training to anyone who has a friend that suffers from a life-threatening allergy,” he added.