Nancy1 wrote:

> jmcquown wrote:
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>>Gabby wrote:
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>>>"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
>>
>>I generally fly Northwest (although with the bankruptcy that will probably
>>stop) or Delta. I've never been offered peanuts on any of their flights.
>>Call me insensitive, but I still don't believe it is the airlines
>>responsibility to worry about a single customer possibly having a food
>>allergy. You get 150 people on a plane and they are supposed to change
>>their policy because they might have one passenger with a peanut allergy?
>>You know that's not how big business works.
>>
>>And a lot of people bring their own snacks on the plane with them; I know I
>>do (usually cheese crackers, but sometimes evey PB crackers!). What are
>>they supposed to do, start confiscating anything with peanuts? I, for one,
>>would protest.
>>
>>I also do not remember anyone having peanut allergies when I was a kid in
>>the 1960's. I took a PB sandwich for lunch every day and no one ever got
>>ill from being around me while I was eating it. I can't comment on why this
>>has become so prevalent; I can only comment on personal experience which is
>>this: no child around me ever had an allergic reaction when I was eating my
>>lunch.
>>
>>Jill
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>
> Ditto. Another odd thing - I don't remember anyone when I was growing
> up being lactose-intolerant; yet, that phrase is so common nowadays.
> What gives?
>
> N.
>
Well for one, the bowels give and give and give I can't answer your
question but I developed it and it isn't fun. One word - lactaid!