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Woman with severe allergy ‘left with no choice’ but to buy every packet of peanuts on flight (www.independent.co.uk)

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‘Eurowings should be ashamed of how they handled this situation,’ says passenger

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[–] Moghul 176 points 1 year ago (45 children)

One thing in advance: Leah Williams was not forced to buy all packages of peanuts on board – on the contrary, our purser tried to offer her an alternative solution by informing all passengers sitting around her about Leah’s allergy. She agreed at first but then decided to still buy all the packages.

The airline says it is “unable to guarantee that the aircraft is free of foodstuffs that may trigger an allergic reaction, such as peanuts”, because passengers are allowed to bring their own food onboard.

I feel bad for her but I have to wonder, how does this person function on a day to day basis? If their allergy is so severe that other people eating peanuts around her would harm her, how does she leave the house? How did she navigate the airport?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I've known people with severe food allergies, so I empathize with the caution needed in their everyday lives, but I'm pretty sure this woman went overboard. Which is a bit odd, considering she was 27 years old, which makes me suspect she's dealt with this allergy for many years and should be used to having to deal with non-allergic people around her.

[+] [email protected] -17 points 1 year ago (6 children)

"i'm pretty sure she went overboard" said by neither a peanut allergy sufferer, doctor or sicentist. the guy from lemmy said he's pretty sure, folks, case closed

[–] DrZoidberg 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok Karen.

In the real world, where the rest of us live, if she's able to fly without any issues, she can handle people eating nuts around her.

If her allergy was severe enough that just breathing peanut particulates would trigger a reaction, she'd be suffering from an allergic reaction the entire time she was on a plane, every time she was on a plane.

This child overreacted like a typical Karen. And if she actually handled all the packages of nuts she bought, hate to break it to ya, but she would have had a reaction from the peanut oil that's inherently found on bags of, you know, peanuts.