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A good move, it must be quite nerve racking travelling by air with a severe peanut allergy. I was on a flight recently from London to Chicago where they reques
by pattle 7y ago
A good move, it must be quite nerve racking travelling by air with a severe peanut allergy. I was on a flight recently from London to Chicago where they requested that no-one consume any foods they'd brought that contain peanuts. We probably should have been told this at check in as my brother had some cereal bars containing nuts in his bag. Plus they'd only asked in English so I was surprised the announcement wasn't made in other languages too.
- curiousgal 7y agoI don't get this, how does a passenger eating peanuts affect another passenger that's allergic to them?
- Mirioron 7y agoThere are some people that have a very severe peanut allergy and peanut dust could float around in the cabin. If the plane is over an ocean and somebody has a medical emergency then there's nothing you can really do. So it's a better safe than sorry move.
- zaarn 7y agoThere is to my knowledge no scientific evidence that people's allergies can be triggered by "peanut vapor" nor do I know any confirmed stories or experienced someone's allergy being triggered by such "vapor". It's entirely a myth. In fact, a quick google brings up this page: https://www.aaaai.org/ask-the-expert/peanut-air-travel https://www.aaaai.org/ask-the-expert/peanut-air-travel
- Mirioron 7y agoI see that I was wrong. I didn't know it had been tested this thoroughly.
- pattle 7y agoThe air inside a plane gets continually recirculated and some people have such a severe allergy that even the smallest traces can causes a bad reaction.
- TomK32 7y agoWouldn't a face mask help them?
- purerandomness 7y agoYou still need to breathe air, and that has to come from somewhere. Face masks are effectively preventing droplet infections, but probably wouldn't prevent traces of peanut from being inhaled.
- NikolaeVarius 7y agoEvidence of claims?
- foxyv 7y agoYes, a simple dusk filter would prevent peanut dust from being inhaled. If it gets on their skin though I don't know how someone normally reacts. May be too small to cause an issue or who knows?
- xaqfox 7y agoYou are mistaken about the recirculation. The air gets replaced fairly quickly due to how they maintain positive cabin pressure.
- NikolaeVarius 7y agoSo? Air is constantly refreshed many times per hour and any recirculated air is filtered.
- zaarn 7y agoPeanut dust isn't airborne for any significant amount of time nor does it seem to be capable of causing any reactions even at the dust levels detecting right where someone is eating a peanut: https://www.aaaai.org/ask-the-expert/peanut-air-travel https://www.aaaai.org/ask-the-expert/peanut-air-travel
- Maskawanian 7y agoIt would likely depend on proximity and cross contamination.