The death of 26-year-old Jordan Cooper, a lone reservist from the USA who served in Nahal, was due to an acute allergic reaction to nuts, after he ate halva that turned out to contain hazelnuts.
Sagi Hoftman, an emergency medicine medic at MDA, and Lior Lifshitz, a senior medic at MDA, who were called to the hotel where the young man was staying, tell Mako News today (Tuesday) that "we saw a 25-year-old young man fully conscious, standing on his feet, with signs of allergy. Those who stayed with him said that he was allergic to nuts, and developed an acute allergic reaction (anaphylactic), after he ate milk and it turned out that it contained hazelnuts. They gave him treatment with Epifen, but it did not help.
At this point, the teams evacuated the young man to Ichilov Hospital. "We gave him another dose of Epifen in the ambulance, but his condition deteriorated during the trip, and he lost a pulse and had difficulty breathing. We fought for his life and performed CPR on him," they added. Unfortunately, and despite the efforts, the hospital had to pronounce him dead while approaching the hospital.
* Mako News contributed to this article.