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Old January 23rd 08, 12:02 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Morgans[_2_]
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Default Medical and severe allergies


"Robert M. Gary" wrote

"Peanut allergy affects approximately 1.5 million people in the United
States. As the most common cause of life-threatening allergic
reactions (anaphylaxis), peanut allergies account for 80 percent of
fatal or near-fatal allergic reactions each year. You can reduce your
risk of having an allergic reaction to peanuts by knowing as much as
you can about peanut allergy and how to avoid peanut-containing
products."

Morgan writes:

Yep. As a side note, remember back a while, when some airline flights did
not serve food on short flights, they would still give you a snack? It was
often peanuts.

The people with peanut allergies were able to get peanuts banned, because of
the severity of the reactions when a hundred people opened up bags of
peanuts, in a relatively stagnant tube of pressurized air.

I don't mind, since the reactions are so severe.

I don't know what the right thing to do in the case is, but it seems
unlikely that there would be any problem, as long as his passengers know
that they should not open any food, until it is confirmed that they contain
no peanuts.
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Jim in NC