Kiss of Death

[Nevermore]

"A 15-year-old Canadian girl with a peanut allergy died after kissing her boyfriend who had eaten a peanut butter sandwich hours earlier, reports say."


Wow, I knew that peanut allergies were bad, but dying after kissing someone who ate peanut butter on toast nine hours earler?  Holy crap!

[Viin]

That'll teach kids what happens when they use tongue.

[WayAbvPar]

[Kenrick]

I once kissed a girl who had recently read a peanuts cartoon, and the next thing I knew I was in the ER with all sorts of tubes coming out of my orofaces.



 

[SurfD]

Yeah, some peoples allergic reaction to that kind of stuff can be insanely severe.

At a summer camp I worked at many years ago, we were actually required to remove any and all substances containing peanuts or peanut-oil from camp 2 FULL WEEKS before a child with severe peanut allergies was coming to camp.

This kid was literally so allergic to Peanuts that if you cracked a can of Beanutbutter open on the other side of the room, the kid would start swellling up and go into convultions mere moments later.

Makes me glad I am not allergic to anything.  I would probably kill myself if i ended up allergic to chocolait or something similar.

[penfold]

Is this a recent thing, or did the odd Roman drop dead due some kind of nut allergy too ?

[Merusk]

Is this a recent thing, or did the odd Roman drop dead due some kind of nut allergy too ?

They did, but it's becoming more prevalent these days, like all allergies.  One of the unintended consequences of modern medicine.  Yes, we can prevent these people from an otherwise unplesant death, but then they breed and pass it along to more kids.  Just the way of things.

[WayAbvPar]

Is this a recent thing, or did the odd Roman drop dead due some kind of nut allergy too ?

They did, but it's becoming more prevalent these days, like all allergies.  One of the unintended consequences of modern medicine.  Yes, we can prevent these people from an otherwise unplesant death, but then they breed and pass it along to more kids.  Just the way of things.

That is crazy talk. It is all part of the Intelligent Design of the multiverse.

[Merusk]

Ah but it's that too!

See, eventually we'll all have so many crippling allergies and require so much energy to keep our anti-germ sterile-domes up that some unforseen natural consequence will bring down the power for the few hours required to kill the pathetic "greys" mankind will turn itself into.

And in that I see beauty and foresight that humankind just lacks.   Has to be someone smarter than us figuring out creative ways for us to destroy ourselves and then tossing them in our path.  :-D

[voodoolily]

I knew a girl in college whose cells couldn't perform the Krebs Cycle properly, and so she couldn't eat anything with citric acid. She wouldn't die or anything, just break out in a horrible rash, but still.

Anaphylaxis is a bitch, though.

[Furiously]

Is this a recent thing, or did the odd Roman drop dead due some kind of nut allergy too ?

I think Socrates was an Athenian and it was hemlock.

[lamaros]

Is this a recent thing, or did the odd Roman drop dead due some kind of nut allergy too ?

I think Socrates was an Athenian and it was hemlock.

So maybe he wasn't talking about Socrates then... seeing as the whole topic is about allergies and not state ordered suicide?

[Ironwood]

Something Awful went with the 'Girl dies with boyfriends Nuts in her mouth' Tagline.

Classy.

[HaemishM]

Is this a recent thing, or did the odd Roman drop dead due some kind of nut allergy too ?

Isn't that the entire basis of homophobia?

[Pococurante]

They did, but it's becoming more prevalent these days, like all allergies.

Crazy as it seems, if people would stop using anti-bacterials and let bubba and sissy go back to eating dirt there'd be no problem.  Seriously.  I came to the realization some years ago that most of the highly allergic people I knew either lived in a high pollutant area or grew up in suburbia with hyper clean houses and no nature to go mucking about in.

And then there are Texans.  You live here you will be allergic.  But then we have a shitton of pollution especially in the coastal areas and because of the heat most people stay indoors longer than is probably healthy.

[Merusk]

They did, but it's becoming more prevalent these days, like all allergies.

Crazy as it seems, if people would stop using anti-bacterials and let bubba and sissy go back to eating dirt there'd be no problem.  Seriously.  I came to the realization some years ago that most of the highly allergic people I knew either lived in a high pollutant area or grew up in suburbia with hyper clean houses and no nature to go mucking about in.

Yeah there were a few studies a while back about this same thing.  It's just one of the reasons why I don't like having antibacterial stuff in the house (the other being, oh.. the rise in resistant bacteria that's being seen, like the rise in antibiotic resistant bacterias because people don't take all their medicine.. whoops!).  My wife has a fit when I let the kids eat stuff that's dropped off the floor, or when the two year old starts sucking on old dish sponges, but hey, we have medical insurance for a reason. 

because of the heat most people stay indoors longer than is probably healthy.

Ahh sick building syndrome.  Plastics, how we love thee.   More people need to learn to open windows instead of AC all the time.

[stray]

Opening windows does nothing in Texas. It's still hitting the high to mid 80's at the end of November here....And don't even get me started about summer.

[Triforcer]

  My wife has a fit when I let the kids eat stuff that's dropped off the floor, or when the two year old starts sucking on old dish sponges, but hey, we have medical insurance for a reason. 

I fully support the five second rule, but as to the second part...wtf?  You do have to draw the line somewhere, dude, and old dish sponges are about a mile over it.

[Pococurante]

Hehe well it depends - some people have cleaner used sponges than other people.

[Merusk]

Who said old?  I said dish sponges, old was nowhere near it.  We replace sponges every 2-3 months max, and only use 'em on dishes, running them through the washer every week or so. NBD.

[Pococurante]

I used sponges for all three of my brats.  New sponge, given a good soaking, then dropped in a sandwich baggie and frozen.  Bust out when said spawn has teething problems.  Just the right temperature and texture.  Have at least three in the freezer or portable cooler at all times.

Oh another tip - never, ever, use Oragel or any other of that teething medication.  They actually make teething more painful over time since they harden the gums to deaden the pain, when of course what causes the pain is the teeth trying to poke out through the gum.  Who designs this shit for infants anyway.  They must hate kids.  Use over the counter tylenol and the frozen sponges.  When everyone else in daycare is still dealing with that nonsense your kids will have moved on to bigger and better things liker eating boogers and gargling dirt.

Hmm speaking of which I look at the clock and realize it's time to practice making babies again.  TGIF - that I got the wife "fixed"... ;)