Posted on 10/31/2017 5:05:55 PM PDT by Trump20162020
Routes of exposure
Peanuts
While the most obvious route for an allergic exposure is unintentional ingestion, some reactions are possible through external exposure. Peanut allergies are much more common (about 7 times) in infants who had oozing and crusted skin rashes as infants. Airborne particles in a farm- or factory-scale shelling or crushing environment, or from cooking, can produce respiratory effects in exposed allergic individuals. Empirical testing has discredited some reports of this type and shown some to be exaggerated. Residue on surfaces has been known to cause minor skin rashes, though not anaphylaxis. In The Peanut Allergy Answer Book, Harvard pediatrician Michael Young characterized this secondary contact risk to allergic individuals as rare and limited to minor symptoms. Some reactions have been noted to be psychogenic in nature, the result of conditioning, and belief rather than a true chemical reaction. Blinded, placebo-controlled studies were unable to produce any reactions using the odor of peanut butter or its mere proximity.
(In other words, people who claim to be affected by an open bag of peanuts nearby are . . . nuts.)
No, your problem, you deal with it. The rest of the world doesn’t care about your allergy. If it’s that serious, insulate yourself in a bubble and never come out, otherwise, don’t eat nuts.
I suspected as much. Thanks for the information.
“is it time to take action?”
Yes. Hunt down and kill everyone with a food allergy. It’s the only way to be sure.
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Sure. Continue enriching and breeding the most sensitive and fragile folks.
Health and Safety Hysterics.
it is past time to tell nuts like this author to mind her own effing business...
Yes.
So stay indoors from now on, Kate.
Thank you for that
I thought peanuts were already banned on US flights but there was Southwest on my recent trip passing them out like...peanuts.
I know people with really, really serious food allergies. One man I know WILL die if he consumes even the portion of a walnut. He has to buy foods that are processed with equipment that doesn’t touch walnuts. Most eating out is not possible.
He does not expect the rest of the world to be walnut free. He does what he has to do and offers it up.
I also have a relative who has numerous environmental allergies that are serious, but not as serious as the walnuts, and it inconveniences her to have to leave places that have too much “perfume” in the air, but she doesn’t expect the world to give up flowers and perfume. She accepts her personal cross.
What is the explanation? I’m 65, and I know we didn’t hear of, for example, anyone with a peanut allergy until I was in my 30’s.
I have an odd allergy.
If I drink alcohol and eat peanuts I will break out in a very alarming rash that will cover my whole body skin surface for a few hours. If I do not mix them I do not get this reaction. I suspect it has to do with the alcohol making the allergen in the peanut more soluble. I drink and I do eat peanuts. I do not do both together. I sure as hell do not demand others not to eat peanuts nor not drink alcohol in my presence. I like them both but just do not have them together.
There is nothing more British than fish and chips.
Wow. I’ve never heard of that, but you could be right about the alcohols reacted to the peanuts.
You sir, have just dated yourself!
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