Yael Kozar of Rolling Hills Estates was getting ready to take her two young daughters for a walk a decade ago when she gave them both a bite of a peanut butter-flavored power bar. Her 18-month-old daughter spit it out, and Kozar figured she just wasn’t a fan.
During the walk through the neighborhoods of Westchester — at the time their home — the little girl became ornery. Then the sniffles came on, and Kozar wondered if she’d caught a cold. Moments later, Kozar took a look at her daughter and was horrified: one of her eyes was swollen shut and she was wheezing.
The next thing Kozar knew, she was in the car, gunning it for the hospital in Marina del Rey. By the time Kozar came running through the emergency room’s sliding 
glass doors, clutching her daughter, the baby girl was covered in vomit and was barely breathing.
“They saved her life while I was sitting with her on a hospital bed,” she said.
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