Posted on 12/10/2007 12:06:40 PM PST by fanfan
Yes, repressed lunchtime tragedies, film at eleven...
Good call... :-)
Wow. Your acccount has me wondering.
People here say they never heard of anyone dying of a food-allergic reaction when they went to school.
Having studied the matter, do you think life threatening allergies like your kid has, at least the numbers reported, are a recent phenomenon?
Yes.
I suspect that if they'd eat more dirt when they are younger, most of this silly crap wouldn't be happening.
Ignorance is bliss, or so I’ve heard.
Our son loves dirt. Maybe he’s been exposed to too much of it.
You are ignorant (unknowing, unaware, uninformed, insensible, unconversant, unfamiliar with, sophmoric).
I have a better idea. Put all the kids with severe food allergies in their own school and let them inspect each other’s lunches.
It is certainly increasing in frequency.
The number of Americans with food allergies is dramatically increasing. In the past five years, this number has risen from seven to over eleven million! Over 6.5 million adults are allergic to seafood and over 3 million children are allergic to peanuts and tree nuts. In fact, the number of children allergic to peanuts doubled from 1997 to 2002. Eight percent of children less than 3 years of age have food allergies in the United States and that number is increasing each year. It is estimated that each year hundreds of Americans die due to the ingestion of allergenic foods and over 30,000 receive life-saving treatment in emergency rooms.
How about you, fanfan...Did you sign up for the federal telemarketer no call list?
Is the nanny state helping to keep your home free from the horror of a meal time telemarketer phone call?
No. Did you?
You have GOT to be kidding.
But I am betting that some here did.
Realist would be a better description.
...just ignorant.
I have a life-threatening nanny state allergy (other's lives-not mine).
What is that?
A friend of mine's child's "peanut" allergy was cured by letting the child crawl around the house and yard, then "reintroducing" her to peanuts at a very early age.
We don't even know how many acute or long-term illnesses may be caused by over-protective parents, antibacterial this and that, "organic" foods, an enforced low-fat or vegetarian lifestyle, or even what used to be common exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke.
or even (lack of) what used to be common exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke.
And we are not over-protective of my son. He has always played in, and around, dirt. If we, or his Johns Hopkins doctors, thought that exposure to more dirt would cure his allergies and asthma, then we would do that (but that is not the case). I do think that there is an environmental component to this issue but it is uninformed to completely ignore the genetic one.
Again, it is ignorant to assume that all allergies are the same and can be handled the same.
A Life-threatening peanut allergy is real, as I have experienced (and as medical studies document). Your calling it "imaginary", and then claiming the "more exposure to dirt" cure-all is ignorant and ridiculous.
I hate the notion of the nanny state (and we aren't vegetarians, clean freaks, or liberal in any way) as much as you do...but your response to this allergy is foolish.
My kid is getting a compound bow for Christmas...I'll have him use a copy of your "imaginary ailments" post as a target.
My grandkid is getting a M1911-A-1 Cal.45.
I'll have him return the favor.
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