jefmcg
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And the ban is probably not really about nuts. An airline doesn't want passengers that don't follow the captains orders if they don't feel like it. That can lead to bad situations in the air.
Easyjet and nut allergies
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slowmotion
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Before seeing what a nut allergy can do to my daughter's boyfriend, I rather uncharitably thought that some of those allergy people were a bunch of fusspots and neurots. Maybe some are, but there are plenty of people who will be dead within minutes after exposure. It's hard to believe, but it is true. Give them a break.
growingvegetables
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Nuts are not legumes. Legumes are not nuts.
Tin Pot
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So all hazards to health are equivalent to nut allergies? I don't see it.
Tin Pot
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He didn't get on board with only his nationality known.
It is unknown by the paper, not the airline.
It would be quite easy to enact the ban globally, as passenger information is held on shared systems.
Fnaar
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For info: from today's BBC news:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-35727244
Peanut allergy theory backed up by new research
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-35727244
Peanut allergy theory backed up by new research
Profpointy
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that's rather the question isn't it? Peanuts aren't nuts for example, yet I believe they can cause extremely serious problems to those with so-say "nut" allergies
slowmotion
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I had the same problem when doing Biology at school. We had to take our own blood sample by jabbing a styrette into the flesh beside our own thumb nail. I don't mind the sight of blood and Lord knows, I've mashed my thumb with a hammer many times, but I couldn't do it. Most of us were in the same position. We just asked the guy next door to do it for us.
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summerdays
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I'd forgotten those little bits of metal... Do they still do tests on their blood or is that all banned now?
slowmotion
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I'm sorry to say that my days of Biology A level date to around the time of The Ark.
This flies in the face of previous theories that the increasing use of peanut oil as a base in many products is the cause of peanut allergy. However, it is a common technique, which can work, to slowly expose the sufferer to tiny amounts of the allergen in question until they build their own immunity. I think the rest is just unfounded speculation.
I seem to remember a Food Programme feature on R4 which mentioned that Israelis don't suffer from peanut allergies as their kids are habitually given them from an early age.
If this is irrelevant to the foregoing discussion may I, in that case, just say that Crackle is a peanut.
jefmcg
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That's a strange remark to make in response to a study of 530 patients over 5 years in a well regarded peer reviewed journal. It could not be further away from unfounded speculation.
Surprised it has taken this long. My friend was involved in a that study severely restricted the diet of her new born infant (who was in high risk group for serious allergies). When their second daughter was born, they did not do the same, as the study was completed and no benefit was found in the restrictions. This was about 20 years ago. Ok, that study didn't show that exposure to allergens prevented allergies, but it did show that lack of exposure do allergens didn't prevent allergies.
You're right it is but it rather reflects the fact I've read enough of these, often contradictory studies, to remain suitably sceptical.
srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
I believe that the theory that the growth in the number of people with allergies is strongly connected to the modern tendency to restrict what we give young children is very well-founded and has been around for a long time.
