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@antipodean said in Woo:
@Crucial Following this I'm going to start taking peanuts everywhere, including flights because fuck you if you're allergic to them. Pandering to this has made the issue worse.
What surprised me about this is that I thought they stopped serving peanuts on flights 30 years ago. For exactly the reason stated. Part of me wonders whether this is a "fake news" story based on an historic happening reported as something that happened recently picked up without proper checking. Happens regularly.
I digress slightly ... back in the day (25 years ago ) I was working for an upholsterer from the footy club who did a job for a bloke who worked for Continental Airlines. Bloke gave the boss these BIIIIGGG bags of individual serves of peanuts as they didn't serve them in flight anymore. Kept me in beer nibblies for months!
I've always been cynical about the greater prevalence of allergies in recent times. I've always wondered if helicopter mums over worrying about "what ifs" and avoiding nuts create an issue by avoiding substances that cause potential allergies meaning that kids bodies don't get used to them. But that is my own personal woo and not based on any science.
Now, having said all that, one of Ms boo jr's friends was (well still is but they moved away) severely allergic to nuts. Carried an epipen everywhere and had to be be really really careful about what she ate. So too her mum. So have sympathy for those with genuine allergies.
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@booboo This issue has arisen as a direct result of a generation who think they know better how to raise humans than the grand total of human history. The easiest, and now preferred way, to limit allergies is early exposure.
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@antipodean said in Woo:
@booboo This issue has arisen as a direct result of a generation who think they know better how to raise humans than the grand total of human history. The easiest, and now preferred way, to limit allergies is early exposure.
I am one of four. We were all raised the same, eating the same shit. One of my sisters, the poor girl, is allergic to fucking everything, and especially nuts. Usually very careful when she goes out to eat, not annoyingly so, but gets the right info. But bad info can have dire consequences. Like her husband getting the Eden Park officials coming to his seat during a world cup game to go let him no his wife is really fucking sick at the aid station. Apparently the restaurant they went to prior may not have given entirely accurate info.
My uncle is the same with gluten, and has been for ever. He's really good about it when he goes out. But it's much easier now thanks to the "lifestyle allergies". But i feel sorry for him when he asks for absolutely no gluten, and you just know the waiter thinks he's just another piston wristed gibbon.
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I had a mate in the army who was allergic to nuts. His parents grew almonds. Commercially. A fuck off big farm full of them. I said to him one day; just wander into the live fire trace, I'll tell everyone you went for a piss...
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A uni mate was super allergic to eggs. He had a mild reaction when using a pot that another flatmate had boiled eggs in. Now it'd only had a 'student flat' wash, but all of us were tripping out about the level of sensitivity.
During teacher training there was one (quite odd) little dude in my class with severe allergies. There were several epipens around the school and we got clear instructions on how to use them. There were a few other kids with known allergies but he was the only one where it could be life/death.
We are introducing food to our bubs (7 months) one at a time. Then starting to give her blends of stuff she's already tried. That's the suggested approach from our Plunket nurse. Seems to be working ok so far. Is it wrong that I sent a pic of bubs gnawing on a steak to my vegan sister?? ha ha
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My mate died of anaphylactic shock , as he lay there choking he kept trying to give me his epipen , he was very insistent that it be passed on to me and it seemed a bit rude not to take it. It was a bit hard to understand him of course what with his throat swollen shut but every time I open the drawer and see it there I think of him.
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My mate died of anaphylactic shock , as he lay there choking he kept trying to give me his epipen , he was very insistent that it be passed on to me and it seemed a bit rude not to take it. It was a bit hard to understand him of course what with his throat swollen shut but every time I open the drawer and see it there I think of him.
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@antipodean said in Woo:
@booboo This issue has arisen as a direct result of a generation who think they know better how to raise humans than the grand total of human history. The easiest, and now preferred way, to limit allergies is early exposure.
See! I knew it! (Must have read it somewhere ... )
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Get your popcorn and read this response from a gynaecologist who was targeted by Gwyneth Paltrow for suggesting that some of her GOOP advice was rubbish:
Loved this line (dropped in out of the blue
"Addressing GOOP errors like this one is not disrespecting women it’s pointing out the fucking truth."
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Get your popcorn and read this response from a gynaecologist who was targeted by Gwyneth Paltrow for suggesting that some of her GOOP advice was rubbish:
What the actual fuck?
he editors at GOOP find me “strangely confident” in my “assertion that putting a crystal in your vagina for pelvic-floor strengthening exercises would put you in danger of getting Toxic Shock Syndrome—even though there is no study/case/report which links the two.” I am not strangely confident about vaginal health, I am appropriately confident because I am the expert. I did 4 years of medical school, a 5 year OB/GYN residency, a 1 year fellowship in infectious diseases, I am board certified in OB/GYN in 2 countries, I am board certified by the American Board of Pain Medicine and the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in Pain Medicine and I am appropriately styled Dr. Jen Gunter MD, FRCS(C), FACOG, DABPM, ABPM (pain). A woman with no medical training who tells women to walk around with a jade egg in their vaginas all day, a jade egg that they can recharge with the energy of the moon no less, is the strangely confident one.re
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Oh FFS. Apparently under Prop 65 simply an allegation that coffee contains a trace of a cancer-causing chemical is enough to force coffee sellers to post cancer warnings. 7-Eleven has already settled. A pox on do-gooders everywhere.