wow, this guy must feel like shit.. sad story
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Yeah, imagine the guilt. Just a tragedy in so many ways. Sucks all around.
I'd never be able to forgive myself. Man, I love my woman and I love peanut butter. I don't know what I would do. Wow, just a heart breaking story.
I cant believe that, how tragic. Is it just me or is this peanut allergy problem a sort of a new thing, just growing up I never heard of anyone having a peanut allergy and all these warnings. Or are we just more aware and prudent these days?
fingernailsonhull Wrote:I'd never be able to forgive myself. Man, I love my woman and I love peanut butter. I don't know what I would do. Wow, just a heart breaking story.
Not that it matters in this context, but I hear ya. I'm a big fan too, especially crunchy... it'd be a sacrifice for sure.
i actually have a peanut allergy so its something that is new to me
chancellor Wrote:i actually have a peanut allergy so its something that is new to me
Any idea how it developed? I've wondered how such allergies seem to have exploded in recent years. Is it environmental, genetic, or has it always been as common as it is now but just not as recognized?
I can't ever remember any friends having peanut allergies in school, but I have a sister who is five years younger than me who knows a few and had specific health classes and assemblies about it in high school.
Something to do with food preperation or hormones or engineered farming maybe?
It is something that has become much more common. When I was a kid, like Dame, the idea of a peanut allergy was unheard of.
Now my kids, in their last school, had a kid with peanut allergy in their class. And now in their new school, again. So it's a big deal to make sure that if they have peanut butter when they're home for lunch, they're all cleaned up when they go back to school.
Someone explained it to me recently, although I promptly forgot the details. It's environmental.
I moved to Halifax from Winnipeg in 2001, and up until I moved here, I had never in my life heard of a gluten allergy. I still don't know what gluten is, but I'll be damned if 75% of the population in Halifax doesn't have an allergy to it.... same thing with the "No scents is good sense" thing... they don't let anyone wear cologne or perfume because too many people have "environmental" allergies... it doesn't affect me, but I had never heard of that either, prior to moving here...
Rory
Stephen Dame Wrote:I can't ever remember any friends having peanut allergies in school, but I have a sister who is five years younger than me who knows a few and had specific health classes and assemblies about it in high school.
Something to do with food preperation or hormones or engineered farming maybe?
I can't recall if it was Mythbusters or How It's Made, or some other Discovery Channel program, but they explained that the cause of the increase in "peanut" allergies is because peanut processing and roasting techniques changed in the 70s and 80s to involve more chemicals which altered the composition of the peanuts going to market... and that's what people are having allergic reactions to.
I'm oversimplifying this but I can't remember all of the details. I'm heading over to google to see if I can find the details...
wpghipfan Wrote:I moved to Halifax from Winnipeg in 2001, and up until I moved here, I had never in my life heard of a gluten allergy. I still don't know what gluten is, but I'll be damned if 75% of the population in Halifax doesn't have an allergy to it.... same thing with the "No scents is good sense" thing... they don't let anyone wear cologne or perfume because too many people have "environmental" allergies... it doesn't affect me, but I had never heard of that either, prior to moving here...
Rory
One of my Health policy classes is using Halifax as a case study because of the "scent-free" designation. It's a first in NA. Some advocates want government funded institutes to investigate environmental allergies and push legislation to keep scents off everything from fabric softner to toothpaste.
Some folks with the allergies claim that they can't be taken seriously because some doctors think the whole condition is psychological. The rhetoric is incredible, as different experts and sufferers are arguing on both the "something must be done" and "suck it up, it's all bunk" side of the issue.
I wonder if the scent allergy will be the new peanut allergy in ten years?
Thanks for the info Skippy, from what you're saying, I guess all schools are taking this head on.
Just by the way, the guy who explained this to me is a pharmacist from Halifax.
It may be related to the way peanuts are processed, but it's also related to diet, both of pregnant women and of young kids. That could very well explain why you see a lot of gluten allergy in Halifax vs. Winterpeg -- local diet.
i have no idea how it has developed as far as I can remember I had always had the allergy.