Nuts on planes

[Bookmonster123]

Hi

I am due to fly with DS soon, first time he’s been on a plane. DS has a peanut allergy, has epi pens prescribed. What’s the protocol about nuts during the flight.

Do I tell the airline at booking, check in or on the day? Do they always accommodate requests not to eat nuts during the flight?

Thanks

That was a suggestion to address the issue for low sugar levels. Why should you endanger someone else's life because you haven't looked into alternatives in place of nuts. As a PP has pointed out you aren't a squirrel.

Being asked not to consume nuts on a flight isn't that unusual.

If missed that this poster is GF (we are too due to coeliac plus type 1)

Nuts have hardly ANY impact on blood sugar so if you need a boost use something like GF crackers or biscuits, a small banana etc. if you’re actually hypo it’s glucose. So many options (and nuts really wouldn’t be a good choice anyway)

Why would it being 'this day and age' somehow make you think they don't serve a particular food product?
Nuts have always been and still are a popular snack onboard an aircraft; to not mention a food allergy to staff is borderline insanity!

Did you make a special request before arriving at the airport, or just do it on the day?
If before they'll pull the service and swap it for something else, but if you tell check in or the flight crew they've got no time to do that so will often refuse.

Makes sense, as it's not really fair to put the staff on the spot when airline catering is a very pre-planned activity.

@Deathbyfluffy I tell them before, and it's happened more than once! I tell customer service when the flights are booked, as I agree, it's unfair to dump it on them but I get a reply saying they can't guarantee anything will be done, then when I get to the airport they haven't even been told. Drives me mental.

I have a sister with a severe nut allergy who, as a child, I remember my mum eating a marathon or some peanuts downstairs and when she went to check on her found her all swollen from the airborne peanuts. My daughter has a milk allergy and she can’t go in places like Starbucks as the milk in the air makes her unwell.

She has had to have her epipen several times in her life from accidental exposure. Luckily she only eats food prepared by me on a plane now and they don’t froth milk so she’s ok.

I agree with the ‘in this day and age’ comment as most schools now are nut free and I don’t think peanut butter is something most sensible well-read people would consider eating in public anymore.

Epipens aren’t fail safe. First you have to have an ambulance after and secondly they don’t always work. Maybe google the story of the this morning producer left brain damaged and confided whether you really can’t manage without nuts for a few hours.

https://amymaytrust.com/amysstory

You’d best write to Imperial, Anaphylaxis UK and Allergy UK and tell them that their methodology and use of the epidemology is flawed then.

Eating 'normal' snacks is to me what 'just one' shot of heroin or crack is to an addict.

I have to work very hard to stay on the wagon, as it were. The last time I was disrupted due to a work thing, it took the best part of a year to get back on track.

So yeah, it could end up killing me, losing me a limb or making me go blind.

I'm not deviating for anyone.

@VeryGoodVeryNiceChickenNugget So you're fine with taking on the risk of someone having a life-threatening reaction? Maybe just take a 🍌 ?

i have flown a lot and would never expect to have or eat nuts - even 17 hour ones are survivable for me - potentially not for someone with an allergy

I would tell the airline before, at check in AND AS YOU BOARD.

pEOPLE CAN BE IDIOTS AS THIS THREAD SHOWS - DEFFO A FEW NUTS

Check airlines policy beforehand- some long haul airlines like Sri Lanka Air get you to sign a disclaimer and refuse to serve you food, some have amazing allergen menus and allow you to board first to wipe down seat, pocket, armrests and table.
Mention at booking and then again at check-in and again when boarding the plane- make eye contact with at least one attendant and introduce your son so they see his face and explain he has a peanut allergy and you are travelling with epipens etc.
Join facebook groups re peanut allergy UK for helpful advice from others who are specific in their knowledge on airline etc.

What do people not understand about TOO CARBY?

Not read full thread.

Just to say we flew Ryanair recently and they were really good. They made an announcement and didn't serve nuts.

I was impressed.

I don't understand why airlines need to sell nuts. It's not essential to people. You can't guarantee a nut free flight but you can signficantly reduce the harm.

People can survive without nuts for a few hours.

But you need carbs when you have a hypo.

Why can't you take a gluten free sandwich on board with you instead (as long as it isn't made with peanut butter)? The NHS website suggests fruit juice, sugary fizzy drinks, jelly babies or glucose gel to raise your blood sugar quickly, then a sandwich once your sugar levels are up. Are you saying that you never eat any carbs at all?

You keep putting down suggestions to suit your own agenda. Nuts aren't the only solution.

Cheese goes warm & sweaty.

You're a joker, @VeryGoodVeryNiceChickenNugget. Just watch those diamond shoes though. Feet can swell on flights.

Imagine living in such a small world that the only possible snack that’s not too carby is a packet of nuts 🤣

If you have disordered eating, that's completely separate from your T2 diabetes.

Someone pass me the white bread please.

Hit the nail on the head

Take something like :

berries
pepper cucumber carrot sticks
Greek yogurt
sugar free jelly pot

All low/no carbs

It’s just selfishness. Me and my dd with type 1 and coeliac know that a life threatening allergy trumps us and we are fine to modify any snacks whilst travelling etc to keep other safe it’s just the decent thing to do. This poster has loads of options available to them but clearly like nuts, and their willpower is so lacking that even when a child is at risk they can’t not eat nuts 😞

You have an epipen to buy you time to get to the hospital so you hopefully don’t die. Much easier to get to hospital from a train or a bus than in the middle of the fucking sky.

Don’t be that person.

My dd is also autistic with ARFID yet she would just rather not eat than eat one of her few safe foods if it would harm another person. I cannot abide selfishness and using diabetes as an excuse well that’s just appalling really.

*Take something like :

berries
pepper cucumber carrot sticks
Greek yogurt
sugar free jelly pot*

You’d better hope your airports of choice sell the later two items airside…….

Airport security are more than able + willingly to accommodate people who need to carry food/liquids for medical reasons. It would not be an issue