Posted on 10/15/2013 6:11:53 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
When the Northwestern Wildcats face off against the Minnesota Golden Gophers at Ryan Field in Evanston on Saturday, something will be missing: peanuts.
Northwestern University is hosting its first peanut-free football game to give fans with allergies a chance to focus on the game instead of worrying about negative reactions to the popular stadium snack, which can range from mild irritation to life-threatening anaphylactic shock.
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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.
We had a teen stay with us a while who supposedly had Celiac Disease and a multitude of other life threatening ailments. At school, everyone quickly saw that the long list of big time no-nos was mostly bunk. A bag of candy didn't seem to upset her diabetes and she'd scarf down pizza despite the gluten ban. When she came to live with us, her parents wanted me to monitor her eating habits and doctor orders this and doctor orders that. Uh, if they couldn't then how could I, but ok, I changed our diet to Atkins and whatever to accomodate. For all my trouble, she never ate what I put on the table but went out for fast food.
No problem with me and peanuts, I love a good PB&J and a glass of milk!
I read about a study in New Zealand that found 95% of peanut allergies are false positives. The test is remarkably easy to get a bad result. The real test is to check into a hospital and eat a bag of peanuts.
You’re right about special snowflake.
The difference with peanut allergies is they react to the skins and crumbs which have a tendency to get airborne while eating, so people eating peanuts nearby present a real danger to the person with the allergy. If beer puts its allergens airborne your situation would be very different.
I am VERY aware of that fact. I was just trying to point out (to all) that we are all different and someone saying that other people are manufacturing allergies because their own kids don’t have them is ridiculous!
Maybe they should ban alcohol, sugar, salt and that evil racist chocolate too.
and dairy allergies, better have no cheese on those dogs
and gluten allergies, no buns either!
salty pretzels are out, or Bloomberg would have a cow
Some peoples “personal space” are just bigger.
We fat people rule bigger kingdoms!!
//sarc
Have you never heard of banana chips??
:p
That does make sense. Our home environments are too clean and after a while of that, any "invader" can become a "threat" to our systems. Thank God I grew up dirty. lol
No, it makes no sense at all. Allergy genes are inherited from your parents.
If the parents and grandparents were also raised in such a clean environment it makes sense.
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.
Hives are not serious. If peanuts were the cause, then he might have a food sensitivity. This isn’t the same thing as an allergy.
That’s because the standard test can’t differentiate between a reaction to birch pollen (extremely common) and a reaction to peanut proteins (extremely rare). Makes sense that they’d automatically say it’s the ridiculously improbable one.
Whatever. You sir may be a nut. Pun intended.
LOL! You noticed that too!
Certainly, It’s common courtesy. But people who demand we conform for others get on my nerves.
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