WHAT ARE THEY OWED?

[Duchess]

An airline is taking some hits because a young passenger went into anaphylactic shock after eating peanuts on a flight. The family had requested nuts not be served. I'm not familiar with peanut allergies but I do know about anaphylactic shock because I'm allergic to bee stings. Do airlines owe it to their passengers to honor these types of requests?

[Carsman]

An airline is taking some hits because a young passenger went into anaphylactic shock after eating peanuts on a flight. The family had requested nuts not be served. I'm not familiar with peanut allergies but I do know about anaphylactic shock because I'm allergic to bee stings. Do airlines owe it to their passengers to honor these types of requests?

Yes, if the airline is to take on the responsibly of feeding their passengers, (patrons in a restaurant) they needed to comply with the family's request. If the family did not advise them otherwise, then that would have been different.

[ramseycat]

Why did the parent let the kid eat them??? It's the parents responsibility to make sure their child doesn't eat the nuts. Yes let the airline know the situation. I'm sure this kid isn't the first person to fly with an allergy. But it's ultimately the parent or the persons responsibility to make sure they don't eat the nuts.

[Duchess]

This kind of thing goes on in schools all across the country too. Someone's kid has a food allergy and it affects all the other little ones who don't have any kind of special needs.

[sally]

These people with their fucking nut allergies, you never heard of it when I was a kid. The article I read said that the airline did not offer nuts on the plane and repeatedly warned passengers not to open up nuts they already had. Some guy from Zimbabwe ignored the warning and opened up a whole can of nuts. The girl went into anaphylactic shock just buy breathing it.

[Maggot]

That's nuts!!!

[SIXFOOTERsez]

Why did the parent let the kid eat them??? It's the parents responsibility to make sure their child doesn't eat the nuts. Yes let the airline know the situation. I'm sure this kid isn't the first person to fly with an allergy. But it's ultimately the parent or the persons responsibility to make sure they don't eat the nuts.

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Also, if the kid was so allergic that just breathing in the vicinity of nuts will do them in, did the parents have an epipen handy?

When I was a kid we hardly ever heard of anyone having allergies like this either, its weird. That said, both of my kids have allergies to some extent and my grand daughter is really allergic to shellfish.

[Cutz]

News reports seem to indicate that the family was sitting in first-class where they were served a bowl of mixed nuts and another of cashews. The preschooler has no history with nut allergies and had never experienced a reaction so the mother didn’t stop her daughter from dipping her hand into the bowl.
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thankfully there happened to be an allergy specialist from Houston, Texas, on board the flight. She came to the front and gave her the adrenaline from a vial.

Then after this, when they got on the next plane and asked for the flight to be nut-free, the flight crew said no and escorted them off the plane. They stayed in a hotel and boarded a flight the next day where the crew agreed to go nut-free.

I think it's fine to be on a crew by crew basis. Have a nut-free flight to offer customers. I have a baby/child allergy, doesn't stop the airline from putting 8 screaming children around me.

[Midwest Spy]

Sorry, special needs people (read: allergy freaks).

YOU need to conform to the rest of society's standards, not the other way around.

If public transportation is too risky, beat it.

[Blindgreed1]

An airline is taking some hits because a young passenger went into anaphylactic shock after eating peanuts on a flight. The family had requested nuts not be served. I'm not familiar with peanut allergies but I do know about anaphylactic shock because I'm allergic to bee stings. Do airlines owe it to their passengers to honor these types of requests?

I hope you carry an epi-pen.

[Blindgreed1]

These people with their fucking nut allergies, you never heard of it when I was a kid. The article I read said that the airline did not offer nuts on the plane and repeatedly warned passengers not to open up nuts they already had. Some guy from Zimbabwe ignored the warning and opened up a whole can of nuts. The girl went into anaphylactic shock just buy breathing it.

I'm allergic to coconut. Sucks because I love cheesecake and for some reason there is always a small ammount of cross contamination with coconut and cheesecake. Unless it's home made or comes from a place that specializes in only cheesecake I can't eat it. Cheesecake factory? Nope. Cross contaminated.

[sally]

What happens to you if you eat coconut? Could you die, or does it just make you sneeze and shit?

[sally]

I meant sneeze n' shit, not sneeze and shit. But I guess it can work both ways.

[Cutz]

I'm allergic to coconut.

I know what cake I'm baking you for your birthday!

[Blindgreed1]

What happens to you if you eat coconut? Could you die, or does it just make you sneeze and shit?

Swelling in the head and neck area. When I was a kid an almond joy almost killed me. Constricted my airway. That's when we found out I was allergic.

[Blindgreed1]

I'm allergic to coconut.

I know what cake I'm baking you for your birthday!

You're gonna look awful funny with that cake hangin outta your ass.

[Cutz]

I'm allergic to coconut.

I know what cake I'm baking you for your birthday!

You're gonna look awful funny with that cake hangin outta your ass.

You prefer to eat cake out of my ass?


I'm gonna need there to be at least 3 girls in this situation or I'm calling homo.

[Blindgreed1]

I'm allergic to coconut.

I know what cake I'm baking you for your birthday!

You're gonna look awful funny with that cake hangin outta your ass.

You prefer to eat cake out of my ass?


I'm gonna need there to be at least 3 girls in this situation or I'm calling homo.

I'm gonna shove the cake up your ass. What you do with it after that is your call homie. I try not to judge.

[Maggot]

Whoa is thee that has diarrhea and works in a pepper factory.