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.
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Ok, so they why would the parents not ensure the safety of the flight before boarding?
If this is true, the fault would lie with the airline for not providing a peanut free cabin for the kid to enter based on the parent’s request when they booked the flight, not as they are coming on board.
If the sensititivity were so great, knowing that peanut bags had already been opened, why would the parents continue to board?
“bend to their conditions”??? Just how hard are you going to have to bend to not eat peanuts for a few hours?
The guy was ten rows up from the allergic girl. I’m not buying it. Yes, I know that the seats are closer now, but it was only 6 feet for COVID.......
Consider this. All the new vaccines forced on the public, especially children in the past 4-5 decades might be the cause.
I made sure my toddler son was fed peanuts from a young age. That’s the best way to prevent peanut allergies. About 30 years ago the advice from physicians in the US was to avoid giving young children peanuts til they are older. That lead to more people with peanut allergies. Also other countries like Israel and China feed peanuts to babies and don’t have problems with peanut allergies. Nowadays the med ical advice in the US is to feed some peanuts to babies after about 6 months.
Seconded.
The broader issue is about these allergies seeming more common now than decades ago. Perhaps immune systems are more overactive due to excessive vaccination and new chemicals in everything.
It seems to me that if the flight crew tells you not to do something on a plane, it’s not a request, it’s an order.
So if thats the case shouldn’t we be back to smoking on planes?
moral: expose your kids to peanuts at any early age and they won’t develop a severe allergy...
Do you know if you go to an allergist, they treat you by conditioning you to tolerate larger and larger amounts of the substance you are allergic to?
Only exception: honey to kids under 3.
And do they attend to their allergies themselves to survive or ask the rest of the world to do it for them?
This is like a guy who can’t walk flopping himself on the ground and insisting they people carry him whereever he wants to go and whoever refuses is a jerk. Normally, such people take care of themselves first as best they can, by getting a wheelchair or what not.
In this article, however, we have someone with a problem who willingly enters the cabin which is already, supposedly, dangerously contaminated by opening peanut bags, yet has no protective gear donned whatsoever. They just announce their presence and all must cooperate.
Nut allergies can be life threatening. I worked for an attorney whose daughter suffer this and she very sick one time and they could not figure out how she came in touch with suspected peanuts. They sought out the restaurant and asked about them using peanuts and found out they were in one of the deserts they served. Apparently, some fell lose on the serving tray and it was not cleaned with soap and water after its use. The peanut “germs” remained on said tray and she touch the tray and that is apparently how she came into contact with it. And yes, the kid almost died from that little touching of a tray that had had the peanuts spill on the tray and the server simply used a damp cloth to wipe it off and not send it through a hot soap and water bath.
Pretty likely.
bull
I would say you shouldn’t bring your grandson on a plane at all if that sensitive.
Even with no peanuts on your flight, what about the prior one? Do the airlines do a full hazmat decontamination before every flight?
This story is like blaming the loss of a football game on the last missed field goal - the parents should not have even entered the cabin if they knew the sensitivity and that bags had already been opened.
But I guess they needed to get where they were going.
What if someone packed a PB&J as a snack for their child? Should that child be denied because some other parent brought their highly sensitive child aboard?
And what if a passenger had spent the afternoon in a Logan’s Steakhouse and is covered in peanut dust. Should he be barred from the plane?
Yes, the peanut-eater was being a jerk, but this whole crap about making every space safe infringes on the rights of others.
>Me either. Anyone that allergic would have passed on long before 14 years.
It’s just a matter of time for that one, can’t shield yourself forever.
Just take peanuts off the planes, period. Maybe we should ban them at ballparks too. Oh and the circus! I have sympathy for the 14 year old and the stewards should have taken the nuts!
An airplane is a little different from an average ‘space’. All kinds of bad things can happen on a plane, far away from good medical help.
This is not correct. If someone has a severe allergy, inhalation of particulate can possibly trigger an immune response. I know this because I have had a lethal allergy my entire life.
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