Posted on 10/15/2013 6:11:53 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Not stupid at all....just pointing out that this was unheard of until fairly recently.
My son’s friend has a peanut allergy. Is his anaphylactic shock and epipen invented?
Second hand peanut bans. It’s for the children.
Don’t you care about the children?
My wife has a severe peanut allergy. She had to be rushed to the hospital as a kid when after eating a sundae her throat swelled nearly shut. She has broken out in hives when I’ve kissed her many hours after eating peanuts. She starts to itch if she gets around an open jar of them. It can be quite scary.
That being said, she has never had an issue being in a plane or a stadium where someone seated more than five feet away had peanuts.
Thank you for your use of logic. It is stupid to say that the allergy is all in her head. It is reasonable to argue, however, that peanut bans in stadiums goes way too far. The subtlety is lost in some people apparently.
Since Minnesota is playing, it will also be football-free football.
I have a dog that is allergic to peanutbutter. It took a while for us to figure it out but I’m sure glad we did.
Within a few hours of eating it she would break out in bumps all over her body and sometimes areas would get so bad that it developed into sores. The bumps would cover her body and it looked like she had cottage cheese under her skin.
It’s disappointing because giving my dogs peanutbutter was such fun— it was always good for tears rolling belly laughs. I even quit making them banana-peanutbutter biscuits, too.
Never in my many, many years have I ever met anyone with peanut allergies. Not saying it’s not real because everyone is allergic to something but this sky is falling peanut thing is getting out of control.
So my one year old child caused his face to swell in order to get noticed? This is the kind of thing that makes no sense.
No, but it’s far more likely that you, naturally protective of your own child, overestimated the severity of the reaction (if there was any). I say that because the most logical answer is that the mechanical properties of peanut butter coupled with the general inability of infants to do anything are far more likely to cause choking and red-faced swelling than an extremely rare life-threatening allergy.
“And PB&J doesn’t go well with chips. “
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I beg to differ with you. :-)
That said,the latest allergy craze is gluten. Restaurants offer gluten free food. We are becoming a nation of hypochondriacs.
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As it stands, there is no test for gluten intolerance (unlike Celiac Disease...which is itself ridiculously rare.)
I hear the gluten crowd say...I feel so much better...blah, blah, blah. The mind is a funny thing.
I feel better when I eat chocolate, a pumpkin pie and a big glass of milk.
My husband and daughter have severe peanut/ tree nut allergies. They have learned to adjust and live with it. (He is 86, and she is 55)
Iit is a big world out there. There are buses, and elevators, and waiting rooms, and door knobs, and stores, and office situations and so on,etc.etc. Having a few selected peanut-free zones is nonsense. You may be able to control Johnny’s environment when he is little, but that won’t mean a thing when he is grown and on his own.
It is not a matter of just learning to live with it, as much as just being aware.
IMHO.
Hear, hear! I'd watch a co-worker's child sometimes and she would get mad because her precious little pumpkin's designer outfits would get dirty when my kids would take her outside and heaven forbid if she got a shin scraped (which never happened) or if the dogs came within 10 feet of her. Germs weren't allowed around that porcelain doll but never mind that she was a biter who's mama didn't care about the germs she was spreading.
Growing up, we were peanut farmers. The whole county grew peanuts. Wanna talk about peanut dust? The school got free gov peanut butter so there was no question that you'd get it in some form on your lunch tray every day of the year. Not one student was ever rushed to the nurse's office. No one ever heard of peanut allergies. No one ever had a special lunch tray for any allergy. Not one classroom was allergy free. We gobbled up any treats someone's mama sent to school and no one died.
“If there was any” ... couldn’t resist could you?
All, the point is that the proper (and most effective) argument against the restrictive rules is NOT to question the legitimacy of the condition. Rather question the need to inconvenience many other people for the sake of the few. That makes some logical sense. But when you question the legitimacy of the condition not only does it make you look dumb, it also makes it look like you are irrationally taking out your frustrations by attacking those of us who have seen it with our own eyes.
If you think it was invented then you are an absolute idiot.
I’m not suggesting that you were hallucinating, but merely suggesting that what you saw may not have been an allergic reaction at all. Peanut butter and nuts are among the most common mechanical choking hazards. Is it then just a coincidence that they are often diagnosed as being allergies?
Our squirrels aren’t going to like this at all.
His reaction was primarily almost instant hives all over his face, to the point of being almost unrecognizable.
Did I say that? No,....so I guess you’re the idiot.
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