To start off I'm not saying there are not some very serious, life threatening allergies out there.
My wondering is why you don't come across more adults with these allergies. I work directly with 40 odd adults i.e. We share a fridge and working space etc. none of them have any allergies that I know of apart from one lady who has coeliac disease - and I'm assuming I would know if others did due to having to be careful about birthday cakes, only using certain parts of the fridge etc. no one refused cake or didn't use the fridge.
Up till four years ago I work with another group of people except about 80 of them and none had any known allergy.
None of my friends or acquaintances have ever said they have allergy problems despite me cooking for them and checking in many cases
If you compare with friends DCs school, five of the reception children in a class of 22 have some form of supposed food allergy. Apparently this is a reoccurring theme throughout the school.
Is it that people grow out of these allergies or is it the imagination of over careful parents who see an allergy every time their child vomits after a meal.
AIBU to suggest that there are not as many allergies around as is thought and that it is parents who are quick to blame simple bugs on allergies?
Please note - I again realise there are some life threatening allergies that exist and are a huge problem. This is for the other ones.
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Defnotsupergirl · 06/03/2014 08:26
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