A five-year-old boy collapsed and died hours after drinking milk at school . Benedict Blythe suffered from asthma and was allergic to milk and egg.

He was a few weeks into reception year at primary school when he was unwell overnight, vomiting twice on November 29, 2021. Benedict was kept off school the next day and returned to class on December 1.

After break time that day, Benedict returned to his classroom where he was offered a drink which should have been the oat milk his parents sent into school. Benedict's oat milk was kept separately from the cartons of cow's milk given to his classmates, along with a carton of lactose-free milk, which was there for another child in his class who was lactose intolerant.

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