Husband, 46, killed by his wife's homemade curry after suffering

 Husband, 46, killed by his wife's homemade curry after suffering major allergic reaction to coconut cream.A man collapsed and died after suffering an allergic reaction to his wife's homemade coconut curry.
Marcus Sweet, 46, returned from work feeling fine to find his wife Julie preparing Indian food for their evening meal.
She gave him a small amount of her coconut cream to taste and within minutes he complained of a sore throat.
Mr Sweet, a cleaning supervisor, took some Calpol and Beechams as he started struggling to breathe, but his condition worsened and Julie called an ambulance.
Mrs Sweet, of Stapleton, Bristol, told Flax Bourton Coroner's Court: 'He was looking a little bit clammy and a bit different. I told him he was starting to scare me.
'He said his throat was really sore and asked me to take him to hospital. I called an ambulance immediately.'
A paramedic arrived within four minutes of her call, but Mr Sweet's airwaves were closing and he began to turn blue.
Before he could be treated, he suffered a cardiac arrest and died, despite the arrival of more paramedics and an ambulance.
The inquest heard that Mr Sweet, who had one infant daughter, Courtney, had eaten coconut before but not coconut cream.
His family accused Mr Vic Ward, the first responder who treated Mr Sweet, of failing to act properly to save his life in November 2011.
They claimed that Mr Ward ‘just sat there’ and the paramedic admitted to the coroner: 'This was possibly one of the worst incidents I have ever attended in my 30 years of work.
'I think I was a bit like a rabbit in headlights for a couple of minutes before I reconciled what I did next. It was stretching the boundaries of my experience.'
The inquest at Flax Bourton, near Bristol, heard that Mr Ward diagnosed Mr Sweet's condition as a reaction to the coconut cream.
He treated it with an injection of the antihistamine Piriton, but minutes later Mr Sweet went into anaphylactic shock, clutching his throat, complaining he could not breathe.

His wife said: 'All of a sudden he just bolted upright like a meerkat and began to say he couldn’t breathe.
Fatal: Mr Sweet, a cleaning supervisor, was feeling fine when he came home from work earlier that day
Fatal: Mr Sweet, a cleaning supervisor, was feeling fine when he came home from work earlier that day
'Within minutes of having the injection he was more clammy and he had difficulty breathing. He made the horrible noise with his breathing. He sounded like a death rattle.
'He was turning blue and his face had swollen and his tongue was sticking out.
'I didn’t think he was going to recover from that. I looked at Vic Ward and just thought "do something, for goodness sakes do something".'
Josephine Needs, Mr Sweet’s mother-in-law who was also at the house for dinner when he died, told the inquest: 'It was clear that Marcus wanted the paramedic’s help but the paramedic was by the window with his back to him.
'It looked like he was ignoring him. Marcus didn’t look a good colour. He was clearly very, very unwell.'The inquest heard Mr Ward moved to a lamp in the dimly-lit room to prepare an oxygen cylinder after the injection.But as he did so, Mr Sweet fell off the sofa and went into a cardiac arrest.
SELECTIVE ALLERGY: WHY PEOPLE CAN BE ALLERGIC TO COCONUT CREAM BUT NOT THE NUT ITSELF.
While reactions to coconuts are relatively rare, an allergy to products derived from the tree nut is more common.The reasons behind this vary from person to person.
Often, it is a case of cross-reactivity.That means the person is sensitive to a property present in a number of foods - coconut, milk, and duck eggs - that is highly concentrated when combined, for example in cream.In other cases, the person is in fact reacting to a chemical in the product, not the coconut itself.A short while later, back-up medics and an ambulance arrived and the crew administered CPR.

But after half an hour they were forced to stop and pronounced Mr Sweet dead.

The inquest was also told that Mr Sweet suffered from an undiagnosed heart condition which may have been a contributory factor.

Pathologist Dr David Paterson said Mr Sweet died of acute respiratory obstruction, acute laryngitis with mechanical and allergic inflammation, and coronary artery atheroma.

Recording a narrative conclusion Coroner Maria Voisin said: 'Marcus Sweet suffered an allergic reaction. Paramedics were called but despite treatment he received he died.'

The inquest heard paramedic Vic Ward had initially been suspended following the death and had undergone extra training, but was now back at work.

Dr Colin Holburn, a consultant in Accident and Emergency Medicine, told the inquest that had Mr Ward acted quicker with the oxygen he probably would not have prevented his death.
Giving evidence he said: 'Even if he had given oxygen a minute before, when Mr Sweet had a compromised air way, and we know he had a compromised heart, the cardiac arrest might have happened because of the stresses of the anaphylactic shock.'
Yesterday, widowed Julie Sweet criticised paramedic Vic Ward, claiming he was not adequately trained for the job and had 'no sense of urgency at all'.
She said: 'I feel angry that if I hadn't taken the time to contact the coroner to say that something wasn't right and I hadn't complained to the ambulance service, my husband's case would never have been investigated.
'My main concerns were that Marcus was not given any oxygen, despite the fact that he was having difficulty breathing.
'Paramedic Vic Ward did not mention the possibility of giving oxygen at any point after he had arrived at the house.
'Furthermore, he did not have a tongue depressor with him and had to ask me for a spoon in order to look into the back of Marcus's throat.
'This indicated that he was not adequately prepared.
'Even when Marcus collapsed, Mr Ward seemed to do nothing and I felt that there was no sense of urgency at all.
'I find it deeply worrying that he admitted that he was out of his depth and it seemed to me that he wasn't adequately trained despite more than 30 years' experience.'
The family's solicitors Barcan Woodward said : 'It was very difficult for Mrs Sweet to hear Mr Ward, a paramedic, admit that he was out of his depth despite having over 30 years' experience.
'Her distress has been compounded by the fact that Mr Sweet's death, though tragic and sudden, may also have been preventable.
'Whilst Mrs Sweet's pain will never subside, I do hope that this inquest has provided our client and her family with some of the answers they have waited so patiently for.'