The unexpected death of a 16-year-old boy could be the catalyst for change as a little-known and potentially lethal allergy becomes more and more prevalent in Australia.

Jeremy Webb had trouble breathing after eating a dinner of beef sausages while camping with three friends on the NSW Central Coast on June 10, 2024.

His friends tried to revive him after he collapsed but the asthmatic teen was pronounced dead after midnight.

Experts at a coronial inquest into Mr Webb's death agree he died of a combination of a severe allergic reaction or anaphylaxis and an acute asthmatic episode.

The role of his final meal in his death is being probed by the inquest after the teen was posthumously diagnosed with a red meat allergy that can be triggered by multiple tick bites.

Jeremy's mother Myfanwy

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