Huh? Do you really think the medical profession is confusing (or conflating) choking with anaphylaxis? Your comments on this thread regarding the seriousness of peanut allergies, at least from those who truly suffer from the condition, have been obtuse, but this takes your ignorance to a whole new level.
Serious peanut allergies are rare, but very real and very serious. More than 80% of the deaths every year from food allergies are caused by peanuts. These are not imagined deaths, and they kill lots of little "snowflakes" every year. The number of kids who get to experience anaphylactic shock, and live, is significant, and most of the time this occurs even though they carefully control what they eat and don't make demands of other that might be seen by some as an inconvenience.
Are parents today overprotective and over-concerned with allergies? Absolutely. Is it ok to deride parents whose children legitimately suffer from these allergies? Absolutely not. It only shows that you don't have any idea what you're talking about.
No, I don’t think the medical profession is confusing choking with anaphylaxis. I think that helicopter parents who desperately need their children to be different often are.
I do not see any source for your claim that 80% of food allergy deaths are caused by peanuts, but it truly is irrelevant. The peanut allergy mass hysteria - and that’s EXACTLY what it is - defies logic. The basic facts will tell you that roughly 10 people die every year from peanut allergies. In this thread alone there are multiple people telling you their children have life-threatening peanut allergies. On every single website that references peanut allergies, you will find parents pounding their keyboards with righteous indignation that their little snowflake has a life-threatening allergy and that special accomodations must be made. If I were to extrapolate from what I see online, I’d have to guess about 10% of all children have life-threatening peanut allergies. Yet somehow only all of 10 people - not just children - die each year from peanut allergies. I simply do not believe that each and every one of them is either never exposed or always prepared with an injectable.
But please, by all means, continue. Ignore the fact that very few people die each year, completely discounting the idea that so many people have “life-threatening” allergies, and also ignore the fact that more and more people are seeing it as a mass psychogenic illness.