But what do you do when someone has a bad reaction whilst over the middle of the Atlantic and their syringe is in the hold?
I guess you submit their name to the Darwin awards.
Here's a more thoughtful article about peanut allergy ...
(Sorry, Pprune won't let me post the URL, it gets zapped)
Google for the "Junkfoodscience" blog,
And search for "Peanutty thoughts for today"
And for those (most?) of you who won't read it, here's the relevant paragraph ...
These reports might seem to be saying that more children today have diagnosed food allergies, but that is not what they are actually reporting. The studies behind these claims were surveys, all of which found that the percentage of parents who report they believe their children have food allergies has increased over the past decade.
But these reports have also neglected to reveal that repeated studies have found that 5 times more parents report their children have food allergies than actually do when tested in double-blind, placebo-controlled food challenges; and as many as 12 times more report food allergies in their infants and children than actually have food allergies when given skin prick testing. The discrepancy between perceived and actual food allergies is growing.