Worried about flying with my peanut allergic dd

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We are flying soon and it will be the first time I’ve taken my dd on a plane since her peanut allergy diagnosis. Has anyone got any advice who’s been in this situation please

I flew with nut and other allergic DS last year with Easyjet. They were great, made announcement, didn't sell nuts but as others said couldn't actually stop others eating nuts.

I was very unstylish but wore a bum bag with two epipens, steroids, other allergy medicine and card with details of allergies etc. Made going through security etc much easier and meant I would have it even if they said I had to check in my hand luggage (others had to). Also meant the cabin crew (and rest of family) knew where they were should they be needed in an emergency.

Also made sure he was traveling in thin trousers rather than jeans should I have needed to use the pen.

Weirdly didn't have any problem getting it through security to both Italy and France and back, I guess they must see a lot going through the scanners and know what they are.

We are flying again this summer and I'm going to do the same, it was so much easier and less scary than I thought it would be. More worried about explaining his random allergies in Greek!

I feel for you, I think you’re being very brave.

I think it’s all been covered...

• Call BA on Monday and ask them what they can do to help.

• Call again closer to the day you’re flying.

• Go to the BA help desk at the airport

• Speak to the cabin crew.

• Speak to people around you

• Wipe everything down on all of your tables, seat belts etc

• Keep her shoes on

• Encourage her to take things like an iPad and book that she’s not likely to drop on the floor. Anything that is dropped YOU pick up and wipe.

• take safe food

• take a shit load of whatever ‘epi pen’ type thing she uses.

Go for long but infrequent holidays or book a ferry next time and make her sit outside. Only semi joking...

My dd is allergic to peanuts. We've flown loads and it's, always been fine. The one hairy moment was flying over a desert in South Africa where staff handed out bags of nuts to everyone on boards. Was nerve wrecking but even that was OK. Wet wipes are a good idea and bring your own food.

What type of allergy does she have? Is she allergic to airborne particles? If so, she’s clearly not able to fly.

If she has to ingest peanuts to suffer a reaction, then do what’s necessary to ensure that she doesn’t. PP have given ideas. Nobody is going to force peanuts into her.

Just be sensible and logical. Speak to your GP if you have specific concerns.

So far it’s ingested peanuts.

Ba

As well as the above book your DD into the window seat and you next to her. If its Shorthaul bring DD to thr loo prior to boarding and hopefully she can wait till disembarking

I'm sure she'll be fine as long as you're very careful about what she eats herself. Airborne particles or traces on seats etc would be very unlikely to cause a serious reaction. I'm not saying it's impossible, but the key thing is the food she eats herself.

My DS is allergic to peanuts and about 6 other things too, and has an epipen, which I take on board with Piriton tablets and ventolin inhaler . But he is not allergic to airborne particles just has to not eat the allergens. We have always been fine on a plane.

I know that reactions are unpredictable and being in an enclosed space is stressful but my peanut allergic child (ingested only as far as we are aware) has flown many times. Once from memory, another passenger did have a packet of peanuts. I swapped seats with DS and it was OK. We have also been in situations where other people have cracked out the peanut butter. I have to say my adrenaline levels spiked but DS was OK.

I think you are being brave too. Tbh depending on how allergic she is, it isn't worth the risk, as pp said. I cant see how its essential to fly, why take that gamble? Before I knew about peanut allergies I would always take peanut m and ms or similar on planes as they are a filling snack. I wouldn't now, but how many people dont understand/forget/ignore allergies? Why risk something so serious?

Peanut allergic DD here. It depends which airline you fly with - BA will do announcement, Virgin won’t.

I flew back from the US with Virgin on Monday and they made an announcement that no nuts were to be opened or consumed on the flight due to a severely allergic passenger.

orangejuiced the flight's probably not "essential" but people with nut allergies still have lives to live.

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Just be warned that the airline may not stop selling on plane.

When we flew back (British airways) they did the trolley and afterwards announced that could people not eat nuts.

People in front of us, a good ten minutes after trolley, said they won't open them again...

This was three weeks ago.

Op, it's incredibly rare for someone to have an airborne allergy, to the extent that it's disputed such a thing exists. As such, your daughter would need to ingest nuts. If airborne existed, you'd have to have the seats cleaned before she sat on them, as you don't know if the person in the flight before sat there ate nuts and got the dust on the seat. She wouldn't be able to go through thr airport, or anywhere else without a mask.

I think speak to your gp to better understand her allergy.