Would you eat a packet of nuts on a plane?

But tbh, people could be eating peanuts just before they get in a flight, bags could have peanuts in them the person sat in your seat before could have been scoffing peanuts all through the previous flight. Someone eating peanuts on your flight is unlikely to contribute to the risk by very much, if at all.

Wotsits are not the same risk to milk allergy sufferers as peanuts are to peanut allergy sufferers. Wotsits are step 2 on the milk ladder, milk is step 6. There is no peanut ladder.
Wotsist contain 6% milk, peanuts contain 100% peanut.

Spilling milk is different as milk dries in and the risk of contamination is significantly less than peanut dust. It only takes a miniscule amount of peanut to cause fatal reaction. In desensitation programmes, the starting does is 1% of a peanut.
I do think there is a misunderstanding of how serious a milk allergy can be so I am not suggesting otherwise, I am just saying that due to the nature of the products, peanut dust cant be easily seen and a miniscule amount can cause a serious reaction, wotsit dust is not the same.

Of the flights I’ve been on in the past month.
Emirates A380. Business Class. 17 hour non stop flight. Warm nuts served with champagne. Bowls of nuts on the bar at the back of cabin
Singapore Airlines. A380 Economy. 13 hour non stop flight. Nuts on top of the dessert. Peanuts available as a snack in the galley.
BA Club World. Dreamliner. Medium Haul. Warm
nuts served with champagne
Ryanair. 4 hour Euro flight. Snickers, Peanut M&Ms, Toblerone and dry roasted peanuts available for purchase on board. I’ve just checked their menu online
Easyjet. No nut based items available for purchase onboard. Surprisingly when I checked their menu online.
Air New Zealand. Dreamliner. Premium Economy. 13 hr flight. No nuts at all inthe food or in the ‘Sky Pantry’. In fact they appear to have a ‘no nuts’ policy as to what they serve on board

Flew to and from Jordan earlier this year - we were all served with packets of nuts

In that case so is eating many other things people are allergic to!! It’s absolutely not selfish unless an announcement was made and someone done it anyway…THAT would be selfish, otherwise why does it matter when no nut allergy on board?

Absolutely not, so selfish. It's just not worth the risk of someone's life.

Dairy allergies in children are common and a major cause of anaphylaxis, but cause about 5% of anaphylactic deaths in adults. The awareness of nut allergies seems to be helping to reduce incidence of anaphylaxis to nuts, but more awareness around milk allergies in children would be good.

Because fatalities from peanut/nut anaphylaxis are far more common (though still rare thankfully) than fatalities from strawberries! They’re more common than sesame and fish fatalities too. That’s basically the reason I think.

Sesame was what Natasha (who has Natashas Law named after her) was allergic to who died on a plane. That was after she ate it though

Milk seems to be the highest number of fatal allergic reactions now according to the BMJ

so you can’t just ban - it isn’t just bags of nuts either Nutella products are popular for planes as well

and yes I agree the consensus is that the vast majority would respect a ban of nuts (or any other allergy) on a plane if told about it

I think the consensus here is that many people would eat nuts on a plane but (with the exception of 1 person) wouldn’t if there was an announcement about someone with an allergy. How very reasonable and sensible.

GAVEL

No I wouldn’t

probably because my adult daughter has a peanut allergy, she does tell the onboard staff that she has an allergy and they make an announcement….or have done up til now

There are lots of different severe allergies and it is not the fault of others- if there was someone with an allergy I wouldn’t but surely the risk is on the affected person to take- boarding a plane with a severe allergy is a risk that one will have to assess

you can’t just ban food groups because of one affected person. As nuts are often a substitute of other foods which people are allergic to. Such as chicken / dairy free milk etc

if someone has an allergy I agree with not selling / serving / not allowing on a flight - but you can’t outlaw a food imo

Surely it’s not the airborne risk thats the main issue but people eating nuts with their fingers then touching services, dropping nuts etc that’s the main risk

we all know planes aren’t the cleanest of places, does that mean the flight before someone with an allergy should be refused nuts?

Should I also not bring strawberries, citrus products like juice, hummus, sesame seed snaps, or a prawn sandwich on board? I've heard that all those things can, in rare occasions, cause anaphylaxis. And all of those things are very often available from the in-flight menu. I have cats and can't guarantee that my traveling clothes will be cat-hair free (in fact, I can pretty much guarantee they WILL have some hairs!). Even if I don't eat nuts on the flight, I might have had a peanut butter sandwich for breakfast earlier that day.

There are no allergen-free environments. If I'm asked specifically not to eat nuts (or strawberries, or hummus) then I'll absolutely comply but I'm not going to swipe a whole load of nutritious and useful foods off my options on a purely hypothetical basis.

And like MrsTerryPratchett said, why is it always just nuts? I don't even think nuts ARE that 'dusty'. Citrus fruit and strawberries are juicy and squirt!

I was half way through eating a nut bar on the plane last week when the announcement was made that it’s a nut free flight. it was made at least 10 mins after takeoff, pretty pointless really. If I’d been that familiy I’d be very unhappy with the airline

I was on a flight this year where they announced there was a passenger with a but allergy and then the crew served us nuts. 🤷‍♀️

Every airport I’ve been in sells peanut M&Ms. Usually in the WHSmith (or whatever name it goes by these days) shop.

I wouldn't bring nuts with me, no. At airports I generally don't see nuts being sold, not even the M&S coated peanuts.

I think some airlines like Tui have a pre-recorded announcement on every flight that there is a passenger with an allergy, I guess they do this as routine just in case. Other airlines do not.

I don't understand how someone cannot just hold off eating nuts for a flight?

Unless told not to, then yes.
Just like people eat Gluten but others have severe gluten allergies, the world can’t accommodate to others all the time.
ambulances etc flashing lights are blue and that’s the worst colour for Epilepsy ironically, but they haven’t changed them 🤷🏻‍♀️

My DS is allergic to tree nuts and Sesame and it is sesame that is more of a problem.

I haven’t yet discovered a way to be on a nut free plane. It’s not an option when booking. You just have to alert staff. Maybe call in ahead. No?? How do you know if a flight is “nut free” (short of it being announced on the flight)?

No, I wouldn't. Because I would most likely die of anaphylaxis before the plane landed.

It would be helpful if the people in neighbouring seats didn't eat them either.

if You have a nut allergy then you need to ensure you are on a nut free plane and they announce it and no nuts are allowed on the plane. But most allow it, no need for people to ask.

Many many times they give out nuts On planes! Yes I’d eat them and Id eat my own too unless asked not to. I have my own food issues that most airline food
Is a no go for me.

I know, that’s why I thought it was a bit unreasonable. Apparently some nut allergy sufferers are also allergic to sesame. Also, I’m not sure that being in a school is any riskier than being in a shop for example.