[Strategerist]

"We're too clean in our modern society. In our bid to kill 99% of the bacteria around, particularly to protect our children, we are upsetting our immune system. The vast majority of bacteria are not harmful, but rather stimulate the production of antibodies which protect against disease. Killing these off leaves us wide open."

I remember several (very frightening) threads on FR where assorted moms were proudly bragging to each other about how they'd gotten their kids to start carrying those ridiculous bottles of antibacterial spray around and spraying everything in sight, using cloths to open doornobs, etc.

I'd just thought they were creating future Howard Hugheses but it appears it's even worse.

[Crazieman]

*cough* socialistic medicine

Poor girl :(

[beyond the sea]

'I'm one of the most allergic people in the country'.............Within minutes she was unconscious on the floor. She was having an anaphylactic shock, a severe allergic reaction that occurs rapidly and causes a life-threatening response involving the whole body

My allergy to the "old media" does the same thing to me.

[Ronin]

Avacado, in any form, will do it for me. It's so bad that one bite of glacamole hidden in a plate of Mexican food would put me in the hospital.

I react badly to most other succulent fruits as well, but not to that degree.

[Graybeard58]

That was when she knew that she could definitively add nuts to her personal list of banned substances.

Odd that she would ban nuts after having a reaction to peanuts since peanuts aren't nuts.