Saiyra was a bright, gentle girl. Since childhood, she had always been allergic to cashews, so she avoided them carefully. Her parents knew it too, and she was always cautious.
But one evening, Saiyra began to feel restless. Her chest tightened, her head spun, and she felt waves of anxiety for no reason. Worried, she told her mother about it.
Her mother, busy and not realizing the seriousness, replied gently,
"It must be nothing, beta. Just take a paracetamol. You'll be fine."
Trusting her mother, Saiyra did as she was told. A tablet a day, whenever she felt uneasy. But instead of getting better, her condition slowly worsened. For almost two weeks, she lived like this — quietly swallowing pills, quietly suffering.
Then one afternoon, the unimaginable happened.
Saiyra collapsed onto the ground, her lips trembling, her hands cold. When her parents rushed to her, screaming her name, they froze in horror. She was unconscious, her body weak… and blood spilled from her mouth.
Her mother screamed. Her father lifted her trembling body in his arms, and together they rushed her to the hospital.
Two doctors rushed into the emergency room. After checking her heartbeat, her breathing, and her blood, one doctor muttered grimly,
"She has consumed something venomous."
Her parents' eyes widened in shock.
"Venomous?!" her father roared. "How dare you say that? Do you think we would ever feed venom to our own daughter?!"
The doctor raised his hands, trying to calm them.
"Please… listen carefully. I didn't mean actual toxin. I meant she has been eating something poisonous for her body. Something her system cannot tolerate. That is why her stomach is bleeding, that is why she keeps fainting."
Her parents fell silent, their hearts pounding.
Then the doctor whispered the truth:
"She has been consuming food she is allergic to. For Saiyra, her allergy is toxin. If she continues to eat it unknowingly… she may not survive the next attack."
Her parents stood frozen, realizing how a single misunderstanding, a simple negligence, had pushed their daughter to the edge of end.
And Saiyra, lying weakly on the hospital bed, proved a painful truth: sometimes, the deadliest toxin is hidden in the things we ignore.