EpiPen: MP with peanut allergy wants adrenalin pens on trains

The charity was set up by the parents of Natasha Ednan-Laperouse, from Fulham, west London, who died in 2016 after suffering a severe allergic reaction to sesame baked into a Pret baguette.

Gittins said establishing an allergy tsar was about “not just making sure we are talking about” allergies, “but actually making sure that across lots of areas, we’ve got a coordinated approach to making life easier for people with allergies”.

She said in her case, after her initial diagnoses, allergy testing later showed she had “some allergies to non-edible things like dust mites, hay fever, birch pollen, that sort of thing”.

The MP, who was first elected in July’s general election, told BBC’s Politics Wales there are currently limitations on where adrenalin pens – commonly known by the brand name EpiPen – that are not prescribed to a specific person are allowed.

“The exemption exists for airlines, so aeroplanes are allowed to carry EpiPens, that currently don’t exist for trains,” she said.

“There are some medical reasons for that, around the administration of EpiPens and making sure that those are administered by trained people, but those exemptions currently exist in schools and I’ve seen in the news recently that that those have saved multiple people’s lives.”