Eating nuts in enclosed spaces

Having just done a long haul flight, home this weekend you get snacks but not Nuts, this has been like this for several years now.
The food they serve is also Nut free.

I have an allergy to Avocado's, it's in everything!

I don't see how it's unfair. Something like a nut allergy can be life-threatening. Surely anyone can go without eating nuts for the length of a flight? It's not as if there aren't any alternatives. I have a friend who suffered a severe allergic reaction (although not to nuts) on a flight - thankfully she had her epipen to hand, or the consequences could have been fatal.

Grandmabatty

So your 'right' to eat nuts means someone's life is at risk? Are you saying that you couldn't find an alternative for the two or three hours in an airplane? Nut allergy is one of the most severe allergies

I agree.
We have a friend with a severe nut allergy. If she touched something that someone had touched with nut on their fingers then touched her mouth, she could go into anaphylactic shock. At 30,000 ft how does aircrew deal with it?

Thst is why Airlines do not hand out nurs as snacks any more.

I rarely post but I must respond to the first two messages going without nuts in an enclosed environment will not kill you but it would kill my grandson there are many alternatives you can have for low sugar episodes it doesn’t have to be nuts.
Due to his allergy my family are all now trained in administering the Epi pen which is the last resort even then it is not guaranteed it will work and at 35000 feet what do you do ?Like Natasha sadly she died at 16 years of age all because the company concerned failed to say the sandwich had sesame seeds. She checked the ingredients thought she was ok but no.
If you had family with this condition would you be so cavalier that it’s not fair.

Yes MissA that's the lady I was talking about, Amy Shead. She worked on This Morning. I believe it happened in a restaurant in Hungary not on a plane.

As the mother of a son, who nearly died at the age of four from anaphylaxis, due to an unknown peanut allergy, I find some of the comments insensitive. The memory is still clear in my mind.

We have never asked people not to eat nuts near him, but on a plane it is different, it is a confined space. It can take just a trace to trigger anaphylaxis

We had a numbe rof pupils in my school, who had to keep an Epipen near them, in case of an episode.It is more common than you think.

Did anyone see the damage done to a young woman who worked on the 'This Morning' programme a good few years ago?,

Up,until seeing it, I would have thought it was a big fuss, but she was left in a terrible state.

It was on a plane, too

To be honest, I was on a flight years ago and they said no no one should eat nuts on the flight as someone had an allergy. I thought 'What a cheek. No one can have nuts because of one person.' It's only after I read about it that I realised it can be life or death.

Of course it's fair !!? How can it not be . People with a nut allergy are in a very serious situation indeed. How hard is it not to eat nuts , even if you are vegan ? For goodness sake , by not eating nuts on a plane you are preserving life. No one in my family has such an allergy thank goodness, I am just grateful for that and would be very willing to refrain from scoffing nuts on a plane.

This is a matter of life and death, surely people can refrain from eating nuts for a few hours.

Vegans can find something else to eat or manage without protein for a short while.

I would go further and always have a ban on nuts on a flight, just in case.

Yes exactly. Eat something else.

I have just been reading an article from the mother of a young woman who was left brain damaged by eating just one mouthful of food despite explaining her condition to the restaurant staff and being assured that no nuts were in the dish. She said that just opening a packet of nuts in the vicinity of someone with a severe allergy can send them into anaphylactic shock with potentially devastating consequences.

Does it really hurt anyone to refrain from eating nuts on a plane journey if somebody’s life could be at risk ?Children at school seem to cope without taking peanuts in their packed lunches. Is it too much to ask?

So your 'right' to eat nuts means someone's life is at risk? Are you saying that you couldn't find an alternative for the two or three hours in an airplane? Nut allergy is one of the most severe allergies

No, it’s not fair or right, first nuts then what next?
My emergency travelling stash-for a low blood sugar episode or meal not turning up-includes fruit and nut bars. I had to use them yesterday on a train journey.
I can’t imagine what non-perishable items could be substituted.