"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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| I didn't think they still gave out peanuts on planes. Whenever I fly,
which
| is a heck of a lot in the last couple of years, you get a bag of pretzels
or
| a granola bar. What if someone is allergic to the oats used in granola?
Or
| has a sensitivity to flour used in the pretzels? At some point a person
has
| to be responsible for themselves and not expect the world to kow-tow just
| because they have an allergy. A person with such severe allergies should
| carry an epi-pen. My 2 cents.

Peanut allergy is one of the few I know of where the allergic person can die
because YOU ate peanuts. Just the opening of bags of peanuts on a plane can
trigger an anaphylactic reaction. I'm not aware of anyone ever dying
because someone else ate wheat.

The epi-pen is a stop-gap measure to buy time while you haul ass to the
nearest ER. Depending on the flight, an ER may not be accessible in enough
time for the epi-pen to be worth anything. All it would do is prolong
death.

FWIW, not all airlines have stopped offering peanuts. A few have taken the
attitude of some of the posters he your allergy is your problem, not
ours.

Gabby