Food allergies: People think they're funny, but they're not.

[gorb]

you mean allergy shots?

No, he means actual exposure to the allergen in slowly increasing amounts over time in a controlled clinical setting.

Actual exposure to the allergen in slowly increasing amounts over time in a controlled clinical setting is exactly what allergy shots are

As far as I know, there is no shot program for food allergens.

There are programs/studies being done in regards to treating food allergies in the manner that you speak of - ingesting small quantities in a controlled environment. I don't think they are very common, however. For example, this clinic (http://www.swallergy.com/food-dens.html) offers a food allergy program but it only covers peanut, milk, egg, soy, wheat, or rice allergies. Unfortunately they do not offer a program for a tree nut allergy (something I suffer from). A lot of people are allergic to shellfish and they don't have a treatment for those allergies either.

Anyway, it does suck having food allergies. Just keep epinephrine handy. I recommend the auvi-q over the epi-pen. Much more compact.

 

[OverVolt]

Its kinda weird, I eat a ton of rice now. Soaking rice is important for some varieties to make them more digestible. Most of the world does this apparently.

I think people are just doing it wrong when it comes to grain. Apparently something something phytic acid.

 

[Humpy]

Twats.

Agreed.

 

[MongGrel]

Agreed.

At least your not in denial.

 

[Humpy]

Okay, you got me. Not being a shitbag to people in general would be accommodating to my circumstances and mine alone.

Good luck changing the world. Maybe you should buy everyone a Coke.

If you do, be sure it's free of HFCS and BPA, and keep the bottle out my ocean, asshole.

 

[SunnyD]

Good luck changing the world. Maybe you should buy everyone a Coke.

If you do, be sure it's free of HFCS and BPA, and keep the bottle out my ocean, asshole.

You good with Mexican Coke then? Or is that being too racist? :hmm:

 

[Imported]

People suck. Thankfully my peanut allergy isn't too severe. Only reaction happens when ingesting and even then its a mild swelling of my tongue. I handle peanut butter for my wife and dog all the time.

Though I did recently find out I could get priority seating on Southwest by saying I have a peanut allergy..

 

[glenn1]

Good luck changing the world. Maybe you should buy everyone a Coke.

If you do, be sure it's free of HFCS and BPA, and keep the bottle out my ocean, asshole.

Right now some other parent is probably making a similar post on another forum bemoaning that OPs kids are engaging in some kind of asshole-ish behavior towards their kids. Of course we can all agree some John Lennon-ish "Imagine" world would be very nice but the nature of parenting today is that parents never think their little angel would hurt a fly much less be a dick to other people. It's always the other people who are at fault and their kids problems are somehow uniquely important compared to other kids' problems. http://www.theonion.com/article/mother-still-searching-preschool-focuses-exclusive-50387

 

[nsafreak]

I have a peanut allergy myself, not life threatening unless I do something royally stupid like eat a whole PB&J sandwich. I've actually done a bit of my own desensitizing therapy and I've gotten a bit more tolerant over the years. Not to the point where I can actually eat the nuts but to the point where I don't notice them in an oil form where the food has been cooked.

While I was a kid folks generally weren't assholes about it but nowadays folks seem to be a bit more asshole-ish about it. It's probably not a good idea to coddle the kids but frankly other kids that intentionally harass them is going a bit far.

 

[HTFOff]

Allergies are strange.

I could eat any fruit I wanted for 25+ years. Out of nowhere I develop a latex allergy. Anaphylactic reactions. I now have a stash of epipens. :hmm:

 

[Newbian]

I handle peanut butter for my wife and dog all the time.

What do you do with said peanut butter with your dog?

 

[DCal430]

The real problem are parents like you. There is NO case of any one ever having any major reaction to nuts who did not intentionally consume the item. So unless your children are shoving these foods down their throats they are in no danger. Parents like you who think others need to conform to their misplaced paranoia are the problem.

These horror stores of people dying from others near them eating peanuts, are just that stories. They don't actually happen, a major reaction requires consumption. So someone eating a PB&J right next to your son, puts him in zero danger unless he grabs that sandwich and starts eating it.

 

[SunnyD]

The real problem are parents like you. There is NO case of any one ever having any major reaction to nuts who did not intentionally consume the item. So unless your children are shoving these foods down their throats they are in no danger. Parents like you who think others need to conform to their misplaced paranoia are the problem.

These horror stores of people dying from others near them eating peanuts, are just that stories. They don't actually happen, a major reaction requires consumption. So someone eating a PB&J right next to your son, puts him in zero danger unless he grabs that sandwich and starts eating it.

"Hi, my name is fucktard and I didn't read the first post."

Also, you're a dumbass who's proven time and again you don't know what you're talking about.

 

[DCal430]

"Hi, my name is fucktard and I didn't read the first post."

Also, you're a dumbass who's proven time and again you don't know what you're talking about.

WTF are you stupid, the link you posted says nothing about serious reaction from peanut dust. In very rare cases with a significant amount of peanut dust you may have a minor reaction. The article you mention specifically states peanut flour, it is speaks specifically to a large of amount of dust from a large amount of ground peanuts. Not someone eating it near you.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...aims-s-impossible-reaction-triggered-way.html

FYI you are the idiot who never knows what they are talking about.

 

[DCal430]

Why don't you find me a single documented case of anyone having a major reaction who didn't consume the peanuts on their own. You won't because their are no documented cases of it ever happening.

 

[MongGrel]

The real problem are parents like you. There is NO case of any one ever having any major reaction to nuts who did not intentionally consume the item. So unless your children are shoving these foods down their throats they are in no danger. Parents like you who think others need to conform to their misplaced paranoia are the problem.

These horror stores of people dying from others near them eating peanuts, are just that stories. They don't actually happen, a major reaction requires consumption. So someone eating a PB&J right next to your son, puts him in zero danger unless he grabs that sandwich and starts eating it.

WTF are you stupid, the link you posted says nothing about serious reaction from peanut dust. In very rare cases with a significant amount of peanut dust you may have a minor reaction. The article you mention specifically states peanut flour, it is speaks specifically to a large of amount of dust from a large amount of ground peanuts. Not someone eating it near you.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...aims-s-impossible-reaction-triggered-way.html

FYI you are the idiot who never knows what they are talking about.

Why don't you find me a single documented case of anyone having a major reaction who didn't consume the peanuts on their own. You won't because their are no documented cases of it ever happening.

 

[Viper GTS]

Why don't you find me a single documented case of anyone having a major reaction who didn't consume the peanuts on their own. You won't because their are no documented cases of it ever happening.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/10243950/...asthma/t/teen-peanut-allergy-dies-after-kiss/

Though apparently now they say peanuts weren't to blame...

Also, uncrustables are delicious. Don't malign them.

Viper GTS

 

[DCal430]

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/10243950/...asthma/t/teen-peanut-allergy-dies-after-kiss/

You are a fucking idiot.

Viper GTS

LOL you are the fucking idiot. The story was all wrong. She died of Asthma attack, not from peanuts. FYI like 50-100 times more people die from Asthma attacks than peanut allergies.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/and-in-the-end-peanut-butter-was-not-to-blame/

Get the fucking story straight before you speak.

 

[DCal430]

I can understand with very young children who often eat things they shouldn't or put their hands in their mouths, but for a teen that isn't a real danger.

 

[Viper GTS]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/31/health/california-peanut-allergy-death/

Didn't swallow. Does that count?

Viper GTS

 

[Viper GTS]

I can understand with very young children who often eat things they shouldn't or put their hands in their mouths, but for a teen that isn't a real danger.

So you expect someone with no money and no transportation to never eat something they didn't prepare themselves? That is an absurd standard.

I'm fine with adults bearing the responsibility of the hand they're dealt but it's unrealistic to expect children to navigate without help. This isn't some bruise and lesson learned situation.

Viper GTS

 

[glenn1]

"Hi, my name is fucktard and I didn't read the first post."

Also, you're a dumbass who's proven time and again you don't know what you're talking about.

Are you suggesting that the other mean kids are aerosolizing the peanuts to cause an allergic reaction in your children? Because the evidence about peanut inhalation reactions in routine situations isn't extensive or extremely conclusive.

 

[DCal430]

She still put it in her mouth, and we can't know if she didn't swallow any of it. I said there is always a danger of accidental cross contamination and a child getting it on their hands and putting their hands in their mouths. Or some getting on the childs food some how. Also no one should be smearing peanut stuff on anyone, especially not to scare them.

 

[OverVolt]

She still put it in her mouth, and we can't know if she didn't swallow any of it. I said there is always a danger of accidental cross contamination and a child getting it on their hands and putting their hands in their mouths. Or some getting on the childs food some how. Also no one should be smearing peanut stuff on anyone, especially not to scare them.

Wouldn't kids do dumb stuff like bully someone with a peanut allergy wtihout really knowing how serious it can be because they're 10. Thats why banning peanuts is legitimate.

 

[MongGrel]

Are you suggesting that the other mean kids are aerosolizing the peanuts to cause an allergic reaction in your children? Because the evidence about peanut inhalation reactions in routine situations isn't extensive or extremely conclusive.

Seems the kids were hinting they would insert peanuts of something in a sandwich or something at one point in here.

Last I remember that would be food tampering and a Felony I believe.