olyclimber Posted November 28, 2005 Share Posted November 28, 2005 Damn! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archenemy Posted November 28, 2005 Share Posted November 28, 2005 Good thing that didn't happen in America. The story would be integrated into the new "sex ed" classes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catbirdseat Posted November 28, 2005 Share Posted November 28, 2005 Having a peanut allergy is like having the Sword of Damocles hanging over your head for your entire life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Posted November 28, 2005 Share Posted November 28, 2005 There's a couple kids in my wife's school that are known as the "peanut boys". If they touch a counter that had peanuts or peanut butter on it they go into anaphylatic shock. So no food of any sort can be in the classrooms, no home-made snacks (in case of peanut residue), and there is a constant regime of wiping desks. One set of the parents is cool, the other threatened to sue the school when one teacher (after school hours) brought a cookie to another in her classroom while the parent was there. She had baked it at home and it had no nuts. Â Very odd allergy. Seems like a Dawinian clause. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catbirdseat Posted November 28, 2005 Share Posted November 28, 2005 There is a Houston company called Tanox that has developed anti-IgE antibodies for treatment of asthma(Xolair, TNX-901) in collaboration with Novartis and Genentech. It turns out it also has application in peanut allergy which is also IgE mediated. There are clinical trials under weigh. Â Apparently, since Xolair is approved for one disease, doctors have the right to prescribe off-label for peanut allergy if they wish, even though the drug is not approved for that use. Good luck getting your doctor to do that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olyclimber Posted November 29, 2005 Author Share Posted November 29, 2005 thats what happens when you make out before you're married. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whidbey Posted November 29, 2005 Share Posted November 29, 2005 And I useed to worry about catching crabs...yikes! This shit sucks. Really bumms me out that that first good toungue lashing got this girl killed. Doesn't seem all that fair to me. It's amazing how many things contain peanuts that we don't even think about..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archenemy Posted November 29, 2005 Share Posted November 29, 2005 Very odd allergy. Seems like a Dawinian clause. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dechristo Posted November 29, 2005 Share Posted November 29, 2005 The evil Mr. Peanut. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knotzen Posted December 1, 2005 Share Posted December 1, 2005 I know a few people with a serious peanut gallery affliction. I have that problem myself, sometimes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EWolfe Posted December 1, 2005 Share Posted December 1, 2005 I'm allergic. I can't even be in a room that has had peanut gallery activity without reacting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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