A UK woman says her daughter died 10 years ago from chewing too much gum

Samantha Jenkins died 10 years ago at age 19 from chewing excessive gum, her mom believes.The sugar alcohols in gum can lead to electrolyte depletion, but other risks are more common.When Samantha Jenkins died in 2011 days after collapsing and convulsing after a hot day out in town, the UK teen's family and doctors looked everywhere for answers.

Clinicians thought she'd been poisoned. Her mom, Maria Morgan, wracked her brain trying to think if Jenkins, who was 19 at the time, had been near antifreeze. Morgan worried maybe her daughter's nail polish remover had gotten into her system. Toxicology reports didn't find anything amiss."I remember thinking how, how on earth can you go into hospital on a Friday with a 19-year-old daughter and walk out of there just two days later with just her glasses?" Morganon Sunday.

A few months after Jenkins' death, a potential answer emerged. While searching through Jenkins' drawers, Morgan and her other daughter found countless gum wrappers and receipts for gum. Morgan doesn't know exactly how much Jenkins was chewing, just that she was "chewing them every day and was buying at least a packet a day on the way to work, sometimes two packets.""It was mind-blowing, completely mind-blowing," Morgan said.

Four years later, a coroner flagged chewing gum as a potential contributor to Jenkins' death, which was ruled "a cerebral hypoxia caused by convulsions and electrolyte depletion." The pathologist even said he found "four or five bright green lumps" of gum in Jenkin's body.A decade after the death, Morgan told Wales Online she suffers from anxiety, and is irritable, argumentative, and may have obsessive-compulsive disorder.

"She will be remembered for just being chatty, fun-loving," Morgan said. "She had such an infectious laugh, I miss that the most I think. I know it's sad for us because we miss her but it's her I feel sorry for, that's the worst bit for me."Gum can make you to swallow air pockets, which can cause abdominal

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