Food allergies are not something new nowadays and this is what has made news once again as it has been told that a seven years old girl has died of the same. This incident occurred when her classmate from Chesterfield County elementary school gave her a peanut not knowing that she is suffering from allergy.

Though Ammaria Johnson was rushed to the school clinic, nothing much could be done to save her life. The girl had suffered from cardiac arrest and died after she was taken to the hospital. It is being said that the girl could have been saved if given EpiPen on time, but a spokesman for the school denied this. Shawn Smith was of the say that even they had the medicine, it could not have been administered as even the parents have not given this drug to her ever.

This was nothing less than a shock for Laura Pendleton, Johnson's mother, as she was told that her daughter had died before reaching the hospital. The mother is shell shocked with the way her daughter was not given the medicine at such crucial stage.

"I have no doubt that the school where this little girl went had an EpiPen in the office -- it just didn't have Ammaria's name on it”, said Maria Acebal, chief executive officer of the Fairfax, Va.-based Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network, who is of the opinion that the girl would have been saved had the pill was given to her. There is need for school authorities to be aware that this drug could save life of kids in emergency.

While the case would take its due course of time to settle down, it has once again raised an important issue about the level of medical facilities available in school for kids.