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Football player found teammates ‘deliberately put peanuts’ in his locker despite severe allergy

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Updated 13:30 1 Mar 2024 GMTPublished 13:29 1 Mar 2024 GMT

Football player found teammates ‘deliberately put peanuts’ in his locker despite severe allergy

Carter Mannon, 16, was diagnosed with a severe nut allergy when he was young.

Callum Jones

Callum Jones

A teenage football player reportedly discovered his teammates ‘deliberately put peanuts’ in his locker despite informing them of his severe nut allergy.

When Carter Mannon was just 9 months old, his family discovered he had the allergy.

Speaking to People, his mom, Shawna Mannon, said: "We had him sitting on the counter, and my husband was making a peanut butter sandwich right next to him. Carter reached his hand inside of the peanut butter jar and he ended up smearing it on himself.

"He broke out in hives right away — it was a perfect handprint of hives. And that's when we realized, 'Oh, he must be allergic'.”

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Carter has a severe nut allergy.
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Subsequent testing confirmed the now 16-year-old's allergy - something that has only got worse in recent years.

"His levels are off the chart," his mom explained. "You have this big strong kid [and] one little peanut could take him down, could kill him."

So, Carter decided to tell his Varsity football teammates at Lake Travis High School, Texas, about his peanut allergy back in October.

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But despite that admission, Carter discovered just hours before a game that peanuts had been placed in his locker, his cleats, and his jersey.

"It was a can of peanuts that they just kind of scattered throughout his locker and put in his cleats," Mannon added to People.

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She went on to say that 'one of the boys came back and tried to kind of clean up a little bit, but the residue was there, the damage had been done'.

Carter's mom said her son broke out in hives almost immediately and could have gone into anaphylactic shock.

During an anaphylactic shock, a person's blood pressure drops and their airways narrow which impacts breathing.

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Peanuts were found in Carter's locker.
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Mannon said her son's teammates had mixed reactions to the incident.

"One of the boys was sharing a video with the other teammates of them doing what they did," she explained.

"A bunch of them were kind of just laughing ... A few of the boys did say, 'That's not cool, that could have killed him.'"

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After Carter reported the incident, the two lads involved were benched for two days and forced to switch locker rooms.

Carter has since switched schools, with Mannon adding: "I felt like the school is no longer a safe place for him, mentally, physically. I didn't trust the district anymore to keep him safe."

Featured Image Credit: Hudl/Shawna Mannon

Topics: Football, Texas, US News, Health

Callum Jones
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