Easyjet and nut allergies

[Shut Up Legs]

Why is everyone so desperate to eat nuts on a flight if it's potentially hazardous to some? Seriously can't some people go a few hours without nuts if it means someone's health isn't out at risk. It's not a nanny state, that's just pathetic entitled nonsense.

I quite like nuts. Eat them at home and in the pub. Someone says for 6 hours I can't eat them in case someone suffers whilst 5 miles up? I'd get over myself

Why is everyone so desperate to smoke cigarettes outside a building if it's potentially hazardous to some? Seriously can't some people go a few hours without cigarettes if it means someone's health isn't at risk.

 

[Markymark]

One man's nanny state is another man's reasonable limit to everyday freedoms

Free to eat something potentially dangerous in a private enclosed space 5 miles up?

 

[machew]

Free to eat something potentially dangerous in a private enclosed space 5 miles up?

So no curries then

 

[Shut Up Legs]

There is a level of genuine addiction there.

You could make the same argument for driving cars, and say motorists are addicted to their cars. The majority of smokers I see are aged under 40, which means they grew up surrounded by anti-smoking advertising, and still chose to take up the habit. I have no sympathy for their addiction.

 

[ColinJ]

So no curries then

I know that is not what you meant, but I just read that some people are allergic to spices and other ingredients in curries, so - no!

I think the banning approach is probably the wrong one. It could never be guaranteed that every trace of every serious allergen would be removed so really there would still have to be measures in place to deal with allergy problems. It is impossible to make the world allergen-free. Food - yes, but the environment ...?

If I had a serious celery allergy*** then I would be peeved to find that nuts were banned on flights, but celery was considered to be ok.



*** I had never heard of celery allergy until somebody told me that they couldn't eat any of a salad that I'd made because I had included celery in it.

 

[Crackle]

Allergy, intolerance and affectation are not the same thing.

 

[Tin Pot]

I love this thread.

Things are not always as you imagine them to be, in this world.

 

[Tin Pot]

Its a new one on me.
Nobody on the whole plane was allowed to eat or buy nuts of any sort on a flight a couple of days ago.
I understand that people with nut allergies can be very ill very quickly. But as far as i know, they would need to eat them to be ill.

What about all the previous passengers on previous flights leaving nuts etc around.

Best of all though, I ordered a extra strong illo coffee which comes with a biscito (italian buiscuit) which I realised after eating it had almonds in it.

Anyone else come across this before?

It's not new.

 

[summerdays]

Alternative headline "Parents take child with potentially life threatening allergy to Canary Islands without learning how to use an Epipen")

Why do you say that? And in an emergency situation it might be hard to remember as you saw a loved one struggling to breathe. I hope never to be in that situation and that if I am that my memory kicks in, and I remember what to do.

 

[summerdays]

It used to piss me off when I couldn't nibble at a bag of nuts with my G&T when going on holiday (a First World Problem if ever there was one), but my daughter's boyfriend has a severe nut allergy and my views have changed completely. It's a real problem if he even touches a tiny speck of a nut.....he has to self-inject within a few seconds......and the adrenaline means he can't sleep for hours afterwards. You would never imagine it to look at him. He's a strapping great rower nearly at professional level. He told us the other day that, at his primary school, he had to eat his meals on a special table by himself because the school couldn't guarantee that elsewhere would be OK.
I have a lot more sympathy having seen what a severe allergy actually involves.

I remember a friend's child at a different school had the same rule and the child sat apart for lunch even though the school had a no nut policy in school lunch boxes.

 

[LocalLad]

On the question of other allergens being banned, I have a mental image of too much latex being used on a plane...

...now that would be an interesting flight

 

[Tanis8472]

Why is everyone so desperate to smoke cigarettes outside a building if it's potentially hazardous to some? Seriously can't some people go a few hours without cigarettes if it means someone's health isn't at risk.

Slightly OT, but when we got off the plane in Majorca, a passenger asked if he could smoke on the apron outside the plane. What a knob jockey

 

[machew]

Why do you say that? And in an emergency situation it might be hard to remember as you saw a loved one struggling to breathe. I hope never to be in that situation and that if I am that my memory kicks in, and I remember what to do.

When I did my 1/2 day training on how to use an epipen we were shown a picture of what happens if you hold it upside down. It will go straight through your thumb.

 

[summerdays]

When I did my 1/2 day training on how to use an epipen we were shown a picture of what happens if you hold it upside down. It will go straight through your thumb.

I found that the hard thing was stabbing yourself with an epipen even though I knew it was a practice one without a needle. And I wasn't the only person who had that problem. I think we had to practice on someone else the next time I was renewing the course! That still wasn't any better.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

People; get a grip. Who cares if someone goes into anaphylactic shock, the flight is disrupted/diverted, and people's plans are wrecked?

People with allergies, or disabilities, or heart conditions, or who are obese, or who faff about getting on or off the plane, or who carry on bags, should not be allowed to fly and spoil my trip.

Nobbers.