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November 28, 2005
Damn allergies
This sounds almost like it's out of the Pop Rock and Coke genre, but apparently it's true. (Because the AP would never make a mistake.)
SAGUENAY, Quebec - A 15-year-old girl with a peanut allergy died after kissing her boyfriend, who had just eaten a peanut butter snack, hospital officials said Monday.
Christina Desforges died in a Quebec hospital Wednesday after doctors were unable to treat her allergic reaction to the kiss the previous weekend.
Desforges, who lived in Saguenay, about 155 miles north of Quebec City, was almost immediately given a shot of adrenaline, a standard tool for treating the anaphylactic shock brought on by a peanut allergy, officials said.
This reminds me of something. A certain lady friend of mine claims her school banned all substances containing peanuts, because allergic people would have a reaction, keel over, and die. I said this was ridiculous, because peanut butter and jelly is the preeminent school lunch in a brown bag meal. I mean, I packed a mean PB&J for school, and I've been known to eat a few for lunch nowadays. It seems rather silly to ban something that is such a staple. Why, it'd be like banning milk!
Can anyone verify this information? Has anyone else's school banned peanut butter and jelly? If so, are you living in Communist China or Cuba?
Posted by oz115 at November 28, 2005 12:26 PM
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Honey pie, sugar dumpling, love dove, schnookie, man of my dreams, teddy bear,
When I flew to Cleveland this weekend on United, the flight attendant was handing out pretzels. The man in front of me asked if he could get peanuts. She told him NO due to too many people being allergic, and due to someone sueing United after a passenger suffered a severe allergic reaction when bags of peanuts had been opened on a flight.
ALSO, it was my entire school district that banned peanut-foods. Kids keel over if their peanut allergy is severe enough. It just has to hit the air, and if someone breathes it in unknowlingly, they could die.
Sarah Hagye has bad allergies to I think ALL nuts... including you, ya nut!
Posted by: Your Lady friend at November 28, 2005 01:03 PM