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June 5, 2010 3:32 pm
Eating peanuts is as much a “right” as packing a gun or smoking a cigarette.
August 5, 2010 10:00 am
I fail to see why it is a “right” to fly so you can go somewhere “interesting”.
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anything else whose risks of fatal reaction outweigh the mere convenience of the ignorant, I hope.
ricport – “total responsibility” is only possible when you have control. when you have both feet on the ground, you can drop everything and get to emergency services within 20 minutes. “Adequate preparation” = reducing possibility of exposure and carrying epipens just in case – but they only buy you 20minutes or so and limit is 2 without medical supervision. so, small-minded pax eating peanuts at 30,000 feet and unsympathetic crew could = death. and as for nannying, my experience is that government treats people according to the way they’re acting.
it’s a question of degree to which the allergic traveler (or parent) can reasonably manage the risks. When in the terminal (or any other public space on the ground), exposure can be managed/avoided and if anything happnes, emergency services are a 911 call away and the ambulance can get you to a hospital before the epipen(s) wear off. When in an aircraft, the traveler is confined and if anything happens, the epipens still buy you 20 minutes but you’re no closer to a hospital.
ricport, everyone is responsible for themselves AND their effects on others. ever hear of involuntary manslaughter?
FrequentFlyer, though I appreciate your attempt at proposed solutions, I cannot support them. (A) we live in a remote area and air travel is the only option to go anywhere interesting. (B) “resue” medication only lasts 10-20 minutes, and you can only give two doses without medical supervision, and (C) we already take very careful measures to minimize the possibility of exposure. I fail to see why eating peanuts in particular is seen sa a “right”
steps airlines should take: 1. cease offering peanut products immediately (may contains is fine, as long as labeled accordingly). 2. educate flight crew about the dangers and precautions, including immediate emergency landing even if reaction seems under control (epinephrine does NOT equal antidote – i’ve watched my son rebound with epi and crash again as it wore off, several times). 3. require pax to carry two (better three) doses of epi, and allow them to pre-board to re-clean. 4. inform all pax when an anaphylactic traveler is on board and to kindly refrain from eating crumbly, oily or gooey peanut products, hand out extra towelettes to ALL pax and encourage use before using common areas, and relocate adjacent obstinant pax if wilfully disregarding the safety of the allergic… more »
Allergic travelers should have two (even three) auto-injectors. The airline should also have one or two auto-injectors in every first aid kit.
Food items prohibited for offer or sale onboard should include any dusty, crumbly, oily or gooey products in which peanuts is an ingredient, as those are the most likely to be transferred/accidentally ingested in sufficient quantities to cause a reaction. When informed, all pax should be reminded to refrain from eating such products throughout the flight, and to practice extra care and handwashing if they choose to eat them anyway.
That would go a long way to easing my weeks of anxiety before every flight with my anaphylactic son, when air travel is our only option. « less