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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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[–] ArbitraryValue 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

a pea sized drop of [peanut] butter was smeared on the skin for 1 minute

no one developed any allergic reactions

I only read the article you linked to, not the actual study. I wonder how they corrected for the extra reluctance a person who believes that he will have an intense reaction specifically to touching peanut butter would have to volunteer for such a study.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah. Some people have allergies strong enough that they're going to defend themselves by punching the test giver in the nose before allowing contact. I imagine those folks didn't make it into the study. It would be pretty fun if they did, though.