toxic pancake mix
By babystar1
@babystar1 (4233)
United States
October 8, 2008 9:23am CST
This is true this really happened
A student at HBHS had pancakes this week and it almost became fatal.
His Mom (registered nurse) made him pancakes, dropped him off at school and
headed to play tennis. She never takes her cell phone on the court but did this
time and her son called to say he was having trouble breathing. She told him to
go to the nurse immediately and proceeded to call school and alert the nurse.
The nurse called the paramedics and they were there in 3 minutes and worked on
the boy all the way to the hospital. He came so close to dying. Evidently this
is more common then I ever knew. Check the expiration dates on packages like
pancakes and cake mixes that have yeast which over time develop spores.
Apparently, the mold that forms in old mixes can be toxic!
Throw away ALL OUTDATED pancake mix, Bisquick, brownie mixes etc you have in
your home.
You can check this
www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/pancake.asp
3 responses
@babystar1 (4233)
• United States
9 Oct 08
I also went through all my dry good and cans goods and found expire dates and got rid of them all.
@GardenGerty (157551)
• United States
8 Oct 08
I believe you, as I have heard of this happening before. I did not know it was yeast, but I did know that there were mold spores in outdated mixes. Good that he called his mom.
@babystar1 (4233)
• United States
9 Oct 08
this was the first time I heard about this.
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@GardenGerty (157551)
• United States
9 Oct 08
I have had some specialty flour grow mold, in a glass jar, which is supposed to protect it. I did not even try to save the jar, it just was such a gloppy mess.
