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To think they should just ban nuts on all flights

999 replies

Ijustwantaquietlife · 21/08/2017 15:45

Just reading this and it's heartbreaking, seems like such a simple change to ban nuts on all flights to help protect people.

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4809148/Former-ITV-producer-reveals-shocking-effect-nut-allergy.html

I've heard several people on mn saying they've been on flights where they were banned, seams to make sense as nut allergies are so widespread to just ban all together imo.

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4809148/Former-ITV-producer-reveals-shocking-effect-nut-allergy.html

OP posts:
Icecreamlover63 · 22/08/2017 18:41

Yes they should - that poor lady on This Morning. It literally broke my heart. I hope thaat somebody from the airline industry was watching this tv article. So so sad.

user1495656648 · 22/08/2017 18:43

SoupDragon very good point! they are the real issues

Only1scoop · 22/08/2017 18:45

And to think when I began my flying career we gave them out with every drink.

Ta1kinPeece · 22/08/2017 18:47

icecream
what have flights got to do with the lady on the telly?
It was a meal on holiday that harmed her .......

I ask again
how many people have had severe allergic reactions on planes

bbcessex · 22/08/2017 18:47

Haven't read the whole thread yet.. couldn't get past the snug self satisfied arrogance of antigonad 's post tbh.

As long as you're ok love.. so anyone who may be severely & irreversibly affected 🙄🙄🙄

Antigonads · 22/08/2017 18:49

Try reading the full thread then.

And did you mean smug?

Kursk · 22/08/2017 18:51

Surely installing a couple particulate/dust filters into the cabin air system would help. Also if aircraft carried epi pens with the defibrillator?

Banning nuts of a aircraft is possible, a global ban isn't, and that's not being suggested by the OP

trickster78 · 22/08/2017 18:52

Here is one from last month. The comments sadly reflect your opinions, talking.
mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-17/mid-air-peanut-allergy-emergency-prompts-parent-warning/8715080

bbcessex · 22/08/2017 18:52

Just read it.

Your comment is one of the most ridiculous I've read on MN (which says something).

Good work, off you go to get your bag of nuts.

worriedaboutbaby · 22/08/2017 18:52

It's a difficult one as where do you draw the line? My son reacts to airborne egg he's that allergic. The hospital gave us a chart and told us his reaction was a 'grade 4' I looked at the chart and grade 5 was 'death'

He was put in 'the allergy table' at school and sat next to a child having egg ???
Nut allergies are terrible but the message also needs to be fit across that anaphylaxis from whatever source is the same it's not that nut allergies are the most severe type of allergy.
Whether it's from nuts, shellfish, egg, milk, kiwi, whatever anaphylaxis is anaphylaxis

Kursk · 22/08/2017 18:53

And to think when I began my flying career we gave them out with every drink.

Southwest Airlines still does give out packets of peanuts to all passengers at least once a flight.

Antigonads · 22/08/2017 18:54

Well you clearly haven't read all the thread.

sunglassally · 22/08/2017 18:54

Look, I realise that some people have life threatening reactions to peanuts. I think the whole world knows this by now.

But I really dislike all this talk of controlling everyone for the few.

And by that I mean without any REAL evidence regarding nuts on a plane. Where is it said that peanut dust is recycled in an aircraft? I haven't seen anyone provide any evidence of that.

So in the absence of that, peanuts can be everywhere. Can't they, before, during and after a flight.

Better ban them everywhere so.

And please...... do not come back and say a plane situation is different without backup evidence that is peer reviewed. Thank you.

BTW I have no problem with nuts being banned on an aircraft at all, no way, it is an easy thing to do. Just looking for proper evidence that it is so dangerous, not anecdotal evidence, proper evidence.

It is getting hysterical here. But that's Mnet for you.

Penhacked · 22/08/2017 18:55

I think banning the sale of nuts would be such an easy little thing, and then an announcement to not open nuts if there is someone with an allergy on board. It really wouldn't be that difficult. It happened to me last week. I asked for nuts and was told about the allergy, then asked for crackers instead. It wasn't a big deal!!

Ta1kinPeece · 22/08/2017 18:56

trickster
a news story is not data
there are tens of thousands of flights every day
how many times have people died / been disabled from a reaction on a flight

FaveNumberIs2 · 22/08/2017 18:56

@Ta1kinPeece

There were two serious incidents on planes in one month in 2014 which probably helped kick off the whole thing.

But is it seriously hurting anyone to not have nuts on planes?

Yes, the lady on This Morning was not in a plane. She was in a restaurant, on the ground, in a busy place and they still couldn't get help for her in time. Had she been on a plane, she probably would have died.

Only1scoop · 22/08/2017 18:56

We now carry 2 epipens on board

Adrenaline has always been in the kit but needs to be administered by a medical pro

The pens are fantastic

Pax normally carry their own though

user1495656648 · 22/08/2017 18:58

For the ignorant few who want statistics of allergy occurances on planes:
waojournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40413-017-0148-1

CakeNinja · 22/08/2017 18:58

And please...... do not come back and say a plane situation is different without backup evidence that is peer reviewed. Thank you.

Okay, Lord Mumsnet, setter of rules which must be obeyed! Grin Grin
twat

Penhacked · 22/08/2017 18:59

But sunglassally, surely you see that anaphylactic shock at 10,000 feet and no doctor is less than desirable? Of all the places you'd want a completely nut free environment, that would be the moment....and instead , people are scoffing nuts faster than a drunk at a pub bar counter.

sunglassally · 22/08/2017 19:00

@CakeNinja,

I know I will be subjected to Hell on Earth, but it is a discussion, and I am not being personal to anyone.

Hysteria does not make a good decision.

LesLavandes · 22/08/2017 19:01

I am interested to know which airlines serve nuts on board these days?

trickster78 · 22/08/2017 19:02

Thanks User. These news stories may not be in an excel spreadsheet but they and the events that happened to previous posters still occured. That is enough to ask, and I'll say it again, for nuts not to be served complimentary or sold. Southwest will not give peanuts out if asked not to. We had pretzels instead ( and it wasn't me that asked, I was flying without my daughter.)

trickster78 · 22/08/2017 19:03

The family on this morning were highlighting the risks of anaphylaxis. They are hoping to stop nuts being served on aeroplanes after the first story I linked to above.

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