On Thu, 15 Jun 2017 08:36:14 -0700, "Cheri" >
wrote:

>"jmcquown" > wrote in message
>news
>> On 6/15/2017 9:26 AM, Cheri wrote:
>>> I never knew a single person that had allergies when I was a kid, not
>>> one. Peanut butter sandwiches were rampant I tell you, simply rampant,
>>> home baked cupcakes were sent to school for parties etc., and nobody
>>> ever went to a friends house with a note to tell their mother what they
>>> could and couldn't have for snacks. LOL
>>>
>>> Cheri
>>
>> "Rampant" is a great word! I never knew anybody who had peanut allergies,
>> either.
>>
>> I pretty much took a PB sandwich to school every day from 1st grade to
>> 6th. So did many of my classmates.
>>
>> Home baked treats were common in lunch boxes. No one worried about
>> ingredients or allergies. Kids didn't go into anaphylactic (sp?) shock.
>> Wheezing and need an epi-pen injection simply because someone brought a PB
>> sandwich near them.
>>
>> I'm a military brat. Never once in all the elementary schools I attended
>> did I encounter a classmate who had a peanut allergy. I don't know anyone
>> *now* who has any kind of nut allergy.
>>
>> Doesn't mean peanut allergies don't exist. Just saying I think they're
>> trying to sell more epi-pens.
>
>Yes, and JFTR none of them died of "mysterious illnesses" either.

Who knows what doctors called it. Maybe not "mysterious illness". That
sounds rather ignorant on the doctor's part. Can't have that.