十代の少年少女 奮起させるs food アレルギー 法案 for safer restaurants in Rhode Island after her younger sister is 繰り返して 入院させるd after eating out

By Daily Mail Reporter

Published: 19:57 BST, 20 March 2013 | Updated: 19:57 BST, 20 March 2013

A 十代の少年少女 has 首尾よく 押し進めるd through a food アレルギー 法案 in Rhode Island after she was 奮起させるd to fight for safer restaurant 基準s by her 厳しく allergic younger sister.

Danielle Mongeau, 18, emailed her 関心s to Rhode Island 明言する／公表する Sen. Louis DiPalma in December 2011 and they sought to pass a 法案 creating a food アレルギー 認識／意識性 program for restaurants.

After Danielle spoke at a 明言する／公表する 委員会, the 法案 was passed last year and she and her family will finally be able to eat out with greater 緩和する after the 法案 takes 影響 in July 2013.

She was 奮起させるd in her fight by her younger sister Lauren, 16, who has eaten out just seven times and has been 入院させるd on five of those occasions with anaphylactic shock.

Sisterly support: Danielle Mongeau, left, has 奮起させるd a new food アレルギー health 法案 in Rhode Island after her younger sister Lauren, 権利, 苦しむs such bad アレルギーs she is 入院させるd if she eats out

Her life-脅すing allergic reaction can be 誘発する／引き起こすd by even the smallest traces of eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, beef, lamb, 気が狂って, sesame seeds and 情熱.

It means that she has had a fraught 関係 with restaurants, her sister told ABC News.

Danielle said restaurant staff were often rude when the family told them about Lauren's アレルギーs, and once they were asked to leave as she was seen eating food from home, rather than off the menu.

'She usually chooses not to eat at all,' Danielle said. 'She still wants to be part of it because she's in high school and just wants to be social and have a good time with her friends. It's a struggle that has 本気で 影響する／感情d her life.'

保護の: The food アレルギー 法案 was passed last year after Danielle, left, spoke to a 上院 委員会

関心s: Lauren, pictured with her father, is allergic to eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, beef, lamb, 気が狂って, sesame seeds and 情熱, and has a life-脅すing reaction if she ingests them

The girls' mother said Danielle, who herself 苦しむs from a tree nut アレルギー, had always been 決定するd to 保護する her sister.

'She has 証言，証人／目撃するd Lauren going into anaphylactic shock and it's scary,' Debbie Mongeau told ABC. 'I remember her as a little girl 説, "Mommy, I don't want Lauren to die".'

So in December 2011, Danielle emailed Sen. DiPalma to ask him to introduce a 法案 類似の to the one already in place in Massachusetts.

It 要求するs restaurants to 地位，任命する 調印するs about food allergens and to encourage 顧客s to tell servers about any アレルギーs they have. At least one 従業員 would need to を受ける training about アレルギーs.

The email told DiPalma that her family had eaten out just seven times without packing a meal for Lauren, and on five times she ended up in hospital.

DiPalma said the email caught his 注目する，もくろむ; it was just one of two that he has ever had from 十代の少年少女s.

'She's a phenomenal individual,' DiPalma said of Danielle. 'We didn't need to reinvent what's already good practice out there in Massachusetts, and that's what we chose to do.'

When he heard from Danielle, he said he wa s surprised there was not a 類似の 法律 already in place, and submitted the 法案.

'This is 40,000 people [with アレルギーs] we're 影響する／感情ing, so it's the 権利 thing to do,' he told WPRI.

Fight: Danielle, a high school 上級の, is pictured speaking at a 上院 委員会 last year after she emailed Sen. Louis DiPalma, 権利, and he submitted the food アレルギー 法案

Success: The 法案, which was passed at the 明言する／公表する house, will go into 影響 at restaurants from July 2013

The 法案 will 施行される in July 2013 and DiPalma told ABC News that 300 restaurants have already 完全にするd the training course online.

Danielle went to the Rhode Island 州議会議事堂 on the day the 法案 passed, and now 作品 there as a page as she finished up high school.

She said she is relieved for her sister that the 法律 has been passed.

'I think it's just going to make her feel a whole lot more comfortable dining out with friends,' she said.