A FAST food giant has issued an urgent warning as a woman says she feared she was going to die after eating a cheeseburger. Beth Mcintosh went to the McDonald's at Stone Lane Retail Park in Exeter on Wednesday. 2 Beth Mcintosh says she suffered a severe allergic reaction after eating a McDonald’s burger in Exeter Credit: BPM 2 She claims just minutes after eating a cheeseburger she went into anaphylactic shock Credit: BPM She claims just minutes after eating a cheeseburger she went into anaphylactic shock and had to be rushed to hospital in an ambulance.
Beth said: "It was quite severe. I actually thought that was it. Within minutes my face had come up all red and my eyes were swollen.
"My throat had started to close up. The EpiPen had improved me a little bit by the time the ambulance arrived. "But they said if they hadn't got there soon they don't know what would have happened.
" Read more Health News SHOCK DIAGNOSIS I was tired all the time before being told I had cancer - I was blindsided IN A JAM Doctors remove GLASS JAR stuck up man’s bum after fearing it would shatter It was a "very scary" experience for Beth who says this was her first allergic reaction. He has only learned she was allergic to nuts in the last three years. She says it was so bad that she went into a "secondary reaction" while she was in hospital.
Beth continued: "Altogether the itching, the burning, the coughing and struggling to breathe lasted about four hours." Most read in Health SHOCK DIAGNOSIS.