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“I guess I am fortunate since my symptomology is always similar in nature and covers a four to 12 hour period”
Yes, you are fortunate. For some people (my son) the life-threatening reaction of airway constriction is immediate. I couldn’t carry enough Epi-pens to allow the plane time enough to land so that we could get to an ER where a doctor–not a nurse–could save his life. I’m not an expert like you, but last I heard death by suffocation takes a mere 9 minutes. It would be good business for the airlines to voluntarily do everything they can to avoid re-directing aircraft due to an emergency and ruining everyone’s very important trip to Cancun. Perhaps they have contracts with Planter’s?
Your concern about religious people requesting further bans on food reveals a lot about you. I’ll quell your fears with this: My son is not offended by peanuts nor do I have a book that says he shouldn’t eat them; peanuts could kill him. It is a scientifically proven fact that anaphylaxis exists and can kill after peanut exposure. Someone above likened this to the Boogey Man, but if I give my son a peanut, he could die (and almost has); everytime I look under his bed for the Boogey Man, there’s nothing. It’s pretty reliable data.
Let life and death be the standard for what foods to ban, and no one should have a problem with this issue. I didn’t know that there was a sizable peanut lobby, nor that so many Americans tie their rights, freedom, and understanding of Capitalism to their ability to eat peanuts. But I’ve always known that they love to tie their prejudices to matters they don’t understand, and this board is proof of the reason WHY the government resorts to making laws that should be common sense and decency.
“I guess I am fortunate since my symptomology is always similar in nature and covers a four to 12 hour period”
Yes, you are fortunate. For some people (my son) the life-threatening reaction of airway constriction is immediate. I couldn’t carry enough Epi-pens to allow the plane time enough to land so that we could get to an ER where a doctor–not a nurse–could save his life. I’m not an expert like you, but last I heard death by suffocation takes a mere 9 minutes. It would be good business for the airlines to voluntarily do everything they can to avoid re-directing aircraft due to an emergency and ruining everyone’s very important trip to Cancun. Perhaps they have contracts with Planter’s?
Your concern about religious people requesting further bans on food reveals a lot about you. I’ll quell your fears with this: My son is not offended by peanuts nor do I have a book that says he shouldn’t eat them; peanuts could kill him. It is a scientifically proven fact that anaphylaxis exists and can kill after peanut exposure. Someone above likened this to the Boogey Man, but if I give my son a peanut, he could die (and almost has); everytime I look under his bed for the Boogey Man, there’s nothing. It’s pretty reliable data.
Let life and death be the standard for what foods to ban, and no one should have a problem with this issue. I didn’t know that there was a sizable peanut lobby, nor that so many Americans tie their rights, freedom, and understanding of Capitalism to their ability to eat peanuts. But I’ve always known that they love to tie their prejudices to matters they don’t understand, and this board is proof of the reason WHY the government resorts to making laws that should be common sense and decency.