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(UK) Girl, 14, with severe nut allergy nearly died aboard BA flight after passenger 'refused to stop eating peanuts despite TWICE being told by cabin crew
FOR MAILONLINE ^ | 6 June 2022 | NICK PISA

Posted on 06/06/2022 9:13:00 AM PDT by dennisw

EXCLUSIVE: Girl, 14, with severe nut allergy nearly died aboard BA flight after passenger 'refused to stop eating peanuts despite TWICE being told by cabin crew he was putting the teenager's life at risk'

A mother has told how of her horror experience at 30,000ft after her daughter suffered from a nut allergy Poppy Jones, 14, flew from Antigua when a passenger opened a pack of peanuts

Cabin crew had twice warned the man it was unsafe due to Poppy's allergies Poppy blacked out and needed oxygen as well as two shots of an EpiPen

Poppy's mother Joanna Jones, 39, said: 'It was a nightmare for all of us and I thought she might die' Do you know the inconsiderate passenger? Email: tips@dailymail.com By

PUBLISHED: 07:32 EDT, | UPDATED: 10:29 EDT, 6 June 2022

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View comments A mother has told of her mid-air terror after her teenage daughter blacked out and suffered an allergic reaction at 30,000 feet on a British Airways when a passenger opened a packet of peanuts on board.

Joanna Jones, 39, was flying to London from Antigua when her 14-year-old daughter Poppy needed oxygen and two EpiPen shots during the nightmare eight-hour flight after suffering a severe reaction to the nuts.

As Poppy's condition worsened, a quick-thinking nurse on board dashed to help - while the captain considered making an emergency landing.

Eventually the pilot landed the plane safely at Gatwick and Poppy was rushed to hospital.

Speaking exclusively to MailOnline, Joanna said: ’It was a nightmare for all of us and I really thought she might die.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: dforest

Or when the served peanut butter sandwiches in elementary school, or when the Girl Scouts sold ‘pecan sandies’.

I guess I am to assume in those earlier rougher times there was a Darwinian process at work.


501 posted on 06/06/2022 4:04:57 PM PDT by Reily
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To: Responsibility2nd

You’re utterly insane. You don’t understand logic, law or even simple common sense. Murder for eating peanuts? Come on man. It’s her allergy. People die of them all the time it happens. It’s death by natural causes not murder. The reaction is your OWN immune system. That isn’t murder.


502 posted on 06/06/2022 4:07:15 PM PDT by libertarian66
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To: Shadow44

“Five Guys? Yeah I didn’t know they did that until my friends in college wanted to go check it out. I didn’t go into anaphylaxis, but I made sure to leave right away.They look liked good burgers too.”

No, it was Texas Road House, or something like that. And you aren’t missing a thing at Five Guys. Before the plandemic they were pretty good, and their fries were fabulous. Now, at least the two I’ve tried in the Atlanta area, are very expensive, and nowhere near their former quality. It’s a shame, and I won’t be going back.


503 posted on 06/06/2022 4:07:39 PM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: heavy metal

Good point. Nuts are considered very healthy food.

My advice would be to travel by car or train with a private compartment if you have this problem.


504 posted on 06/06/2022 4:13:08 PM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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To: Reily

My Mom sent me to school many days with a PBJ like many other kids. Nobody passed out and everyone seemed fine.


505 posted on 06/06/2022 4:15:43 PM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

And when you run off all the paying customers, don’t come whining to me...


506 posted on 06/06/2022 4:18:42 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Forbade? Is that a legal thing or is it just an order with no claws?


507 posted on 06/06/2022 4:19:20 PM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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To: dforest

Same here, maybe we killed off all those allergic.
That Darwinian process has ended.


508 posted on 06/06/2022 4:21:39 PM PDT by Reily
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To: fruser1

500 posts over some peanut eating on an airplane.


509 posted on 06/06/2022 4:25:45 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

What happens if people fart and others feel sick from the odor? Is there a no fart rule?


510 posted on 06/06/2022 4:25:58 PM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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To: DiogenesLamp

It is ALL about the peanut idiot. His selfishness endangered the girl.

Stop blaming the victim.

People like you make conservatives look nuts.


511 posted on 06/06/2022 4:37:46 PM PDT by desertfreedom765
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To: DiogenesLamp

Only to another 12 year old boy : )


512 posted on 06/06/2022 4:40:26 PM PDT by vivenne (")
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To: ronniesgal

Actually, I’m more stuck on the staggering hypocrisy of people screaming about how you can’t impose on them because they have their rights when they have no problem imposing their “rights” on someone else.

I guess to many who can’t see past their own selfish world it depends on whether you are the imposer or the imposee, whether you are the one doing the imposing on others, in which case, everyone else just needs to give way and suck it up, cause look out world, here I come….

Or someone is asking something of them in which case they are the put upon victim and by gosh, nobody can tell them what to do cause they have their “rights”, even when they have no trouble telling others what others can do and denying them the very rights they demand for themselves.

It’s called “hypocrisy”.


513 posted on 06/06/2022 4:40:56 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…..)
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To: poinq

Did nobody read the line asking for the identity of the peanut eater? You know he hasn’t been found right? For all we know this woman made it up then gave her daughter a hysterical panic attack. Where is this mysterious “man with the peanuts”? How do we know he exists? Funny how no one has come forward and identified him! Munchausen’s by proxy anyone? Mother was looking for attention and maybe a payout.


514 posted on 06/06/2022 4:42:44 PM PDT by libertarian66
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To: heavy metal

I would tell them where you live.


515 posted on 06/06/2022 4:42:52 PM PDT by vivenne (")
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To: dennisw
Factitious disorder is a serious mental health disorder in which a person appears sick or produces physical or mental illness. People with factitious disorder deliberately produce symptoms of an illness for the purpose of receiving care and attention in a medical setting.
(https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/9832-an-overview-of-factitious-disorders)

516 posted on 06/06/2022 4:46:02 PM PDT by fwdude (Every time I see someone voluntarily masked in public, I know I'm looking at a vaccinated person.)
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To: libertarian66

You are in Mno way qualified to make a diagnosis like that and as such you are merely defaming.


517 posted on 06/06/2022 4:47:05 PM PDT by vivenne (")
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To: metmom

Why is it always you females who come out against liberty? Seriously y’all want security at all costs and to hell with freedom! What is it, is it the sentimentality, the physical weakness and cowardice, inability to reason? You sure you’re in the correct website? This is a freedom-loving community. Rights are rights, and damn straight, I will walk over corpses to achieve mine.


518 posted on 06/06/2022 4:50:34 PM PDT by libertarian66
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To: metmom

No one is saying the unwell are weaklings. We are saying they are candidates for removal from this life by Darwinian selection. The strong survive and the weaker die. Happens to us all eventually. You wanna live forever or something? Kids like this weren’t made to survive. An allergy that deadly she won’t make 30.


519 posted on 06/06/2022 4:52:40 PM PDT by libertarian66
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To: from occupied ga

Bill of rights to LIBERTY. That covers it, my friend. What I don’t see is a right not to die of natural causes like allergies.


520 posted on 06/06/2022 4:53:51 PM PDT by libertarian66
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