A 16-year-old boy might have died on a camping trip from a red meat allergy that can be triggered by tick bites, a coronial inquest has been told.

Jeremy Webb was on a camping trip with three friends on the NSW Central Coast on June 10, 2022, when he ate a dinner of beef sausages.

By 11pm, he reported having difficulty breathing and collapsed on his way to get help from a nearby adult.

His friends tried to resuscitate him with CPR but the outgoing and athletic teen was pronounced dead just an hour and a half later.

A coronial inquest into Mr Webb's death is probing whether it could be attributed to his final meal after he was posthumously diagnosed with a potentially lethal allergy to red meat.

Previous tick bites can trigger a mammalian meat allergy, which can manifest as stomach dis

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