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A little girl with severe allergies stopped breathing on a plane after a passenger ignored three warnings and opened a packet of nuts.

Fae Platten, four, went into anaphylactic shock and was only revived with an emergency injection.

Ryanair told the girl’s mother that the passenger who opened the nuts would be banned for life from all its flights.

He was seated four rows away, but the recycled air used in planes meant Fae started suffering within 20 minutes of her flight back to Stansted from a family holiday.

Mother Katy Platten, 30, of West Bergholt, Essex, said she wanted to warn future air passengers that people with nut allergies can suffer even if they do not eat them.

The drama took place when Katy, husband Dean, daughters Fae and Izzy, six and Katy’s sister’s family returned home from a week’s holiday in Tenerife.

She said she spoke to staff who told passengers twice once they boarded and again when the food trolley was offered not to eat nuts.

Katy said: “They said there was a child on board with a very severe nut allergy, so no nuts purchased in the airport should not be consumed and they would be selling no nuts on the flight.

“But 20 minutes into the flight Fae said: ‘Mummy, my face hurts’.

“She started scratching her checks so I took her to the front and said I think somebody has opened nuts. He was incredibly selfish.

“The air cabin crew were really good and gave her a flannel and some ice.

“But she was becoming quite poorly. As we sat down, Fae’s breathing deteriorated, her tongue was swollen and her lips were blistered.

“For a few moments Fae stopped breathing. Her airway was compromised and she went unconscious.”

A call by the cabin crew for medically trained passengers produced a nurse and an ambulance driver, who offered to inject Fae with her Jext “epi” pen.

Fae, who will start at Heathlands Primary School next month, regained consciousness and was taken by ambulance to Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford, Essex, when the plane landed.

After Fae was released late last Tuesday, Katy voiced her concerns on Facebook in a post which has since been shared nearly 2,000 times.

She said she believed the man had wilfully ignored the warnings and claimed the person sitting next to him even asked him not to open the packet.

Ryanair staff told Katy the man who had opened the packet of nuts would be banned from all flights for life.

She said: “If you hear an announcement, then don’t ignore it.

“It was a very lucky escape. It could have been a tragedy - Fae’s Jext pen saved her life and brought her out of anaphylaxis.

“Fae doesn’t want to fly ever again - she has understandably had some night terrors since the incident.

“But someone was obviously watching over us that day.”