Curse you, Red Baron!!
Posted on 02/16/2009 10:33:29 AM PST by TaraP
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- The return of peanuts to the snack menu at Northwest Airlines this month has prompted a spasm of protests from travelers with allergies.. The change comes four months after Northwest merged with Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines and in the midst of a national salmonella outbreak involving Peanut Corporation of America. Georgia, where the company has a plant, is the top peanut-producing state in the country. Northwest began handing out the goobers as snacks on February 1, as Delta has been doing for years. In Minneapolis, where Northwest is based, news of the change has resulted in a flood of responses on the Web site of the Star Tribune, a local newspaper. "This is a very disappointing development," wrote one man who responded to the story. "My wife's allergy is so severe that if someone is sitting next to her and eating peanuts, the odor is enough to trigger an allergic reaction." "Northwest is really out of touch with its customers and the reality of allergies to peanuts," wrote another reader. "What's wrong with pretzels?"
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You eat any of those fruits/bark without first cooking it the insides of your mouth could swell up and choke you to death ~ or you could just have welts.
If I could I would go through life with only two things: Peanut Butter and Sex.
Peanut Butter and sex are alike. There is no such thing as bad peanut butter or bad sex.
Curse you, Red Baron!!
Unless you are incarcerated.
By the way, I have never heard of someone in another country dieing from eating peanuts.
If I sat next to you, would you have a problem with me firing up a Marlboro?
As long as you don't mind if I fart.
“Do you mind if I smoke?”
“I don’t care if you burn!”
Compared to peanuts? Pretzels suck compared to peanuts. Smoked almonds are even better though.
They remind me of my cat.
Yup, have that one too but not so severe; I notice some minor swelling with these. Sometimes raw carrots also.
But tell me, why would I be eating birch bark??
I have an idea, instead of Peanuts serve Fried Pork Rinds. Get a tasty snack and in flight security from IslamOfacists.
Peanut allergy is real - and rare, thank God.
Next time some do-gooder peanazi gets on your case, ask to see their Epi-Pen (injectable epinephrine). If they don’t have one, then their Doctor hasn’t prescribed one as they are Rx only. I had a co-worker that had a reaction because he ate a coconut/glazed donut that had been resting next to a peanut/glazed one. Just the transfer sitting in the box made his lips and throat start to swell, and he popped his Epi-Pen in his arm to counteract the response. Medical cleared him and he was back at work a couple of hours later.
More evidence that lieberals go by feelings than facts!
I have never met a good conservative who claimed to have a kid with a peanut allergy. It’s always whiny liberals who think that the rest of the world should make sacrifices for them instead of taking individual responsibility. We never had peanut allergies before Clinton came around... hmmmmmmmmmmmmm I wonder
They are exceedingly high in cyanide.
They also are high in this naturally occuring substitute for ipicac, so if you are starving to death and eat some of those little bushes anyway, you'll toss your cookies and clear your airways long before you die.
Somebody's going to come in and tell us that "birch trees are low in cyanide" and I'm going to have to remind him that at the most Northern limits little bitty fully grown 6 inch high birch trees are HIGH in cyanide.
One friend with this allergy reports she can tell if roasted almonds are roasted enough, and if they aren't she gets welts from them too. Apples make her face swell up.
“One of the most commonly held beliefs is that the odor from peanut products, such as peanut butter, can result in an allergic reaction and anaphylaxis, said Dr. Michael C. Young, M.D., assistant clinical professor of pediatrics, allergy and clinical immunology at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Dr. Young is also the peanut allergy expert, helped to develop the first guidelines for schools in managing food allergies as a member of the Massachusetts Dept. of Education Task Force on Anaphylaxis, and authored The Peanut Allergy Answer Book. In an article [available here] for the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network, he said: “It is important to examine the scientific basis of these ideas before accepting them as fact.”
As he explained about the popular myth that the odor from peanut products could bring on a severe allergic reaction:
There are, in fact, a number of case reports in the medical literature of patients who report symptoms of difficulty breathing, chest tightness, skin rashes, itching, and various other symptoms—all from smelling peanut butter or being in the presence of peanut products. However, a recent blinded, placebo-controlled trial of children exposed to open peanut butter was unable to document any reactions.
Based on these reports of allergic reactions resulting from “inhalation”, many parents express concern that the mere presence of any peanut product can contaminate the surrounding airborne environment resulting in an entire room or area being unsafe for a child with peanut allergy. In evaluating these reactions from “airborne exposure,” it is important to remember several facts. First, allergic reactions to food are triggered by specific food proteins. Without contact with protein, there is no allergic reaction.
The study Dr. Young referenced was conducted by researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. They took thirty young children with documented severe peanut-specific allergies (using IgE antibody testing and clinical anaphylaxis, contact reactions or positive reactions on double-blind, placebo-controlled oral challenges). These children underwent double-blind, placebo-controlled randomized exposures to peanut butter through skin contact and inhalation. Neither the children or researchers knew which exposure contained the peanuts or placebo (scent was masked with soy butter, tuna and mint) and contact exposure used soy butter with histamine. There were no serious reactions. They concluded that “casual exposure to peanut butter is unlikely to elicit significant allergic reactions,” even in at least 90% of highly sensitive children with peanut allergy.
Dr. Young’s article goes on to explain how food particles containing proteins can become airborne, such as during the peanut shelling process which can create a cloud of peanut particles, or releasing particles under pressure in an enclosed space; or high heat processing of peanuts; all of which can affect food industry workers. So, while there are case reports of severe asthma from airborne exposure to food in these extreme situations, “the typical inhalation reaction would be similar to that suffered by a cat-allergic person exposed to a cat walking into a room: itchy eyes, sneezing, and runny nose.” As he said, the “chance of a life-threatening anaphylactic reaction from airborne exposure is very small.”
I had a long post that was similar to the article quoted. Dr Young’s credentials are a heck of a lot better than mine.
One point missing in the article is the psychology, mystique ,right or whatever to be treated as someone special and not like one of the faceless, nameless hordes. Some people(usually parents) unknowingly use the “my kid is allergic” to guarantee special treatment of Jill or Johnny. When I question the parents and child about specifics reactions, often I get a mishmash of tummy hurt, didn’t feel well or got dizzy. What really gets my attention is when they walk in with an Epi pen and have a history of having to use it before.
Here is the core of whats getting to me here...
If I sat next to you on a plane and you could not deal with my cologne (and told me so) I would happily go to the rest room and wash off as much as I could and change my shirt.
some of the morons here would squirt you with it..
Same here, yet my kids are very allergic...
“I have never met a good conservative who claimed to have a kid with a peanut allergy.”
Nice to meet you..
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