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starbreeze wrote:
I’m allergic to raw onions. They make me violently ill. However, I’m the one who has to monitor what I eat. I don’t expect anyone else to. Unfortunately, kids aren’t that responsible. But, I still want to know why wasn’t this an issue when I was in school? Peanut butter sandwiches were always on the menu. Is this allergy worse today? 😕
We do need to avoid the slippery slope thing. It’s so easy for things to get out of control these days.
I find it hard to believe that it’s any worse today than it was then unless someone can show me some solid statistics. In my opinion, it’s our society’s tendency to want to babysit everyone, and the tendency of some to rely completely on that babysitting. Self-reliance got tossed out the window.
But that’s just my opinion.
Jennifer wrote:One of my best friends have a wheat gluten allergy…
My wife and kids have that. It affects about 1 in 250 people, though the diagnosis rate is far less than that. Particularly in the USA.
Jennifer wrote:Banning peanut products from public places may be a precaution but it seems like it is going to cause a slippery slope effect… why not ban all allergy-inducing foods?
Because most allergies are not immediately life threatening. They just make you miserable, or perhaps not even that. Gluten intolerance, for example, is often asymptomatic.
But although most people allergic to peanuts are not likely to die as a result of an encounter, more are than with most other allergies. And people who know they have a peanut allergy normally don’t get to go to ball games.
From what I understand, the ball parks usually do their “no peanut” thing as a special night, or as a block of seats that are studiously cleaned prior to the game. That, rather than a flat-out peanut ban on the entire park all the time.
As you say, a blanket ban in public places is unrealistic. As things are right now, the USA seems to lead the world in number of deaths due to food-induced anaphylaxis. Approximately 125 per year. A lot of people merely have a violent reaction and live; even more have some lesser reaction. If we ban everything from public places that could cause a hundred deaths a year across the entire US population, there would be no “public” places because no-one would be allowed to go there.
im allergic to grass and tree pollen my allergies were so bad 2 years ago it landed me in the hospital , can we please just accomidate me and pave over every thing , it will be easier to sweep up the peanut shells that way j/k 😛
starbreeze wrote:I’m allergic to raw onions. They make me violently ill. However, I’m the one who has to monitor what I eat. I don’t expect anyone else to. Unfortunately, kids aren’t that responsible. But, I still want to know why wasn’t this an issue when I was in school? Peanut butter sandwiches were always on the menu. Is this allergy worse today? 😕
We do need to avoid the slippery slope thing. It’s so easy for things to get out of control these days.
+1 on the raw onions. I only recently developed this allergy. I don’t get sick, but my throat gets itchy and my tongue swells and I feel terrible. Good thing is that I hate onions! Interestingly, wild leeks and garlic do not have this effect on me, even raw.
I also wonder about the allergy, and if it’s worse. I was in high school only 8 years ago and at that time peanut butter sandwiches were still on the menu at lunch, and you could get peanuts on your airline flight…
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My art: featherdust.comNecron99 wrote:im allergic to grass and tree pollen my allergies were so bad 2 years ago it landed me in the hospital , can we please just accomidate me and pave over every thing , it will be easier to sweep up the peanut shells that way j/k 😛
HEAR HEAR! Hell, you know the suffering I’m going through right now.
See, I thought the ban was more for the mess and/or throwing. I never thought about allergies.
I try not to go outside during May and June (hayfever, it wasn’t as bad this year, but it was always worse in Grande Prairie then anywhere else). Also, I remember working a day at Starbucks when they were cleaning out the ventilation. That was the day I discovered an allergy to dust. I don’t think my toungue swelled up, but it went numb. So did my nose. And they made me stay at work, even though I did report that I was getting these symptoms. 🙄
I worked at Shaw Pipe Protection on the east side for… 2 hours.
As the pipes come in they are run through a machine that fires birdshot at the time to clean the outside, then they coat them with molten plastic. After an hour on the line my entire upper body was a dark shade of red and my throat was closing.
I showed the foreman and told him I don’t think this job is going to work out, and left. Which sucked, because this was in 1998 and it was paying $13/hr at the time.
I think the increased prevalence to allergies is partly due to our increase in communications/awareness. With the internet, there is so much more info instantly at your fingertips.
Are there more cases of pedophilia now than when some of us were kids? It’s like every day you hear/read something about pedophiles. I can remember my mother telling us as kids, don’t talk to strangers, don’t take rides from strangers, etc., but I don’t EVER remember not being able to bring cookies or cupcakes to school for someone’s birthday or some other event. :shrug:And what’s up with these new fangled seatbelts too? 😆
My parents said cars originally were made with NO seat belts! 😆 And Snap, you’re not a bad dragon, you’re a good dragon!
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Jennifer wrote:One of my best friends have a wheat gluten allergy…
My wife and kids have that. It affects about 1 in 250 people, though the diagnosis rate is far less than that. Particularly in the USA.
My husband suffers from that too. Makes finding a wide variety of food to eat, or going on vacation or eating out very difficult.
tasgrs wrote:I think the increased prevalence to allergies is partly due to our increase in communications/awareness. With the internet, there is so much more info instantly at your fingertips.
Are there more cases of pedophilia now than when some of us were kids? It’s like every day you hear/read something about pedophiles. I can remember my mother telling us as kids, don’t talk to strangers, don’t take rides from strangers, etc., but I don’t EVER remember not being able to bring cookies or cupcakes to school for someone’s birthday or some other event. :shrug:Around here most holiday parties are banned from schools . No Xmas or easter stuff because of anti christians and Jewish folks rumbling, no halloween or may day because of Uber christians. No fun cakes because of kids being too fat and diabedic.
No more fun to be had in schools . I think people need to keep thier personal life personal and let the kids have some fun . Kids with special needs know what to do and what to stay away from and with a little help from the teachers it should work out ..oughta name this country North PC America
purpledragonclaw wrote:My parents said cars originally were made with NO seat belts! 😆 And Snap, you’re not a bad dragon, you’re a good dragon!
That’s what I mean… these belts are new… dubbayooteeeff?
How do you know I’m not a bad dragon? This IS a FAMILY forum you know. 😉
Jennifer wrote:starbreeze wrote:I’m allergic to raw onions. They make me violently ill. However, I’m the one who has to monitor what I eat. I don’t expect anyone else to. Unfortunately, kids aren’t that responsible. But, I still want to know why wasn’t this an issue when I was in school? Peanut butter sandwiches were always on the menu. Is this allergy worse today? 😕
We do need to avoid the slippery slope thing. It’s so easy for things to get out of control these days.
+1 on the raw onions. I only recently developed this allergy. I don’t get sick, but my throat gets itchy and my tongue swells and I feel terrible. Good thing is that I hate onions! Interestingly, wild leeks and garlic do not have this effect on me, even raw.
I also wonder about the allergy, and if it’s worse. I was in high school only 8 years ago and at that time peanut butter sandwiches were still on the menu at lunch, and you could get peanuts on your airline flight…
I’m with both of you on the onion thing… the smell makes me very sick… and yet every restaurant in town has them on just about everything…. that’s one think I don’t understand… so I have to always say no onions no matter what I get..
of course just about every restaurant in town has fajitas on the menu… and no matter where we go someone orders fajitas… and I get to deal with the cooking onion smell… barf…
and I thought you couldn’t take your own peanuts because they sell them there at the ball park…
kind of like the “no outside food or drink ” rule at cafe’s and stuff…
Necron99 wrote:No more fun to be had in schools . I think people need to keep thier personal life personal and let the kids have some fun . Kids with special needs know what to do and what to stay away from and with a little help from the teachers it should work out ..oughta name this country North PC America
Sorry, I disagree with that. Imagine if you are a 7 or 8 year old kid with food allergies and EVERY time someone in your class has a birthday you have to sit and watch everyone else chowing down on cake or cupcakes and you can’t eat any of it. How fun is that for that child? And although I agree the children need to know about their condition to make a 7 year old responsible for a potentially FATAL condition could well end in tragedy. Sure, the teacher could help but a lot of schools are over crowded and trying to keep an eye on 16 7 year olds every second is impossible. It’s much safer just to ban the food. Besides, if I was a teacher I wouldn’t want to deal with sugared up kids anyway! 😉
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