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Originally Posted by dyna mo
i'm aware of the peanut allergy, but to say "many people in the world who can be killed by a single peanut" is quite an exaggeration.
more importantly, nut allergies have been linked to mass psychogenic illness: hysterical reactions grossly out of proportion to the level of danger.
http://christakis.med.harvard.edu/pd...s/misc/023.pdf |
That part is very true. Most who believe peanuts = death are just living in fear from a misdiagnosis. A friend of mine who worked for me used to leave work often because he walked by peanuts and suddenly feels ill. Someone prepared a desert once and forgot to tell him it had peanut butter in it, nothing happened. Now he happily eats nut products with no effects.
However, my son almost died from peanut butter ingestion and does breathe funny when near it.