[::maroma::]

Of course I feel bad for the girl, but what a story her boyfriend has to tell his next girlfriend!

http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/condi....ap/index.html

[Dark Helmet]

It's kinda like that scene in X-men.

[Chuckit]

That's pretty sad. Poor kids.

[gururafiki]

That sucks! Yea I feel bad for the girl dying, but the boyfriend is never going to forgive himself! He has to live with this for the rest of his life...

[Dark Helmet]

I have nut allergies also but not that severe. I get some pains in my chest, throat and mouth.

[Mastrap]

That's just awful. Poor kids, the both of them.

[KeriVit]

Holy crap. That sucks.

[deomacius]

Gives new meaning to the phrase "kiss of death". I wonder if this has ever occurred before? Seems unlikely that this would be the first time.

[Rolling Bones]

Wow!??!

[::maroma::]

I feel bad for people with severe food allergies, specifically an allergy to nuts. Being that almost every food processed in the U.S. has some sort of nut product in it, your choices are very limited. Then you have to worry about kissing someone. That's just gotta suck.

Interesting little note in that article stating that some experts theorize that the possible use of baby oils made from nuts could cause allergies later in life makes me even more paranoid to have a baby. God only knows what I could be doing that seems completely safe and normal and turns out to be just plain bad.

[cjrivera]

Originally Posted by Dark Helmet

I have nut allergies also but not that severe. I get some pains in my chest, throat and mouth.

Be careful. Sometimes, you can have less severe reactions from nuts for a long time, but then for no reason, the next one can be a severe anaphylactic reaction.

You may want to consider asking you doctor if epinephrine injectible pens (Epipen) may be something you may want to have around. Hopefully you would never need it, but all it takes is one severe reaction without the proper treatment...

I wonder if that poor girl had an Epipen with her.

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by Dark Helmet

I have nut allergies also but not that severe. I get some pains in my chest, throat and mouth.

What about your chin?

[Dark Helmet]

Originally Posted by cjrivera

Be careful. Sometimes, you can have less severe reactions from nuts for a long time, but then for no reason, the next one can be a severe anaphylactic reaction.

You may want to consider asking you doctor if epinephrine injectible pens (Epipen) may be something you may want to have around. Hopefully you would never need it, but all it takes is one severe reaction without the proper treatment...

I wonder if that poor girl had an Epipen with her.

I think I must have about 10 food allergies, when I was younger 25ish.

At any rate the Epipen is like a $100 bucks and expires every year. I would really only need one for bee stings and those **** me up large (we're talking hospital).

[cjrivera]

Originally Posted by Dark Helmet

At any rate the Epipen is like a $100 bucks and expires every year. I would really only need one for bee stings and those **** me up large (we're talking hospital).

That's $8.35/month for insurance against possibly preventing what happened to that girl in the article. (That's what I'd tell my patients... I'm not trying to lecture you.)

[ghporter]

I would think that the boyfriend would have known the girl was allergic to peanuts before they got close enough to kiss...

It's a bummer either way, but that boy is going to have a horrible life because his kiss killed a girl.

[Dark Helmet]

Originally Posted by ghporter

I would think that the boyfriend would have known the girl was allergic to peanuts before they got close enough to kiss...

It's a bummer either way, but that boy is going to have a horrible life because his kiss killed a girl.

Oh please even when I tell people I am allergic to something they don't take it that serious. You think a 15 year old boy would know not to kiss a girl after he ate peanut butter?

[teknopimp]

the article does not say she kissed him on his mouth

[CMYKid]

Originally Posted by ghporter

I would think that the boyfriend would have known the girl was allergic to peanuts before they got close enough to kiss...

i have, on occasion, had that opportunity within a few minutes of meeting a person.

not that I necessarily always took the opportunity.

but still.

[ghporter]

As the parent of a teenager who's not that far removed from age 15, I feel that kids are a bit more particular about who they get into potentially romantic situations with than they get credit for. That's not to say that once they get into those situations they behave particularly intelligently... But before getting close, they tend to "be friends" in the sense that they know each other beyond sitting in the same classroom and maybe having the same lunch period. I would hope that this sort of serious allergy would have come up in conversation. "Can I get you some candy?" "Sure, but no Resse Cups, I'm really allergic to peanuts."

[Chuckit]

Originally Posted by ghporter

As the parent of a teenager who's not that far removed from age 15, I feel that kids are a bit more particular about who they get into potentially romantic situations with than they get credit for. That's not to say that once they get into those situations they behave particularly intelligently... But before getting close, they tend to "be friends" in the sense that they know each other beyond sitting in the same classroom and maybe having the same lunch period. I would hope that this sort of serious allergy would have come up in conversation. "Can I get you some candy?" "Sure, but no Resse Cups, I'm really allergic to peanuts."

That still does not necessarily translate in a teenager's brain into "keep in mind what you ate a while ago and wash your mouth out before kissing if it contained peanuts."

[olePigeon]

Originally Posted by Kevin

What about your chin?

[ghporter]

Originally Posted by Chuckit

That still does not necessarily translate in a teenager's brain into "keep in mind what you ate a while ago and wash your mouth out before kissing if it contained peanuts."

Quite possibly true, but that's pretty depressing. "I'm so allergic to peanuts I could stop breathing" sounds like something that would stick in a boy's mind for a while.

[Chuckit]

Originally Posted by ghporter

Quite possibly true, but that's pretty depressing. "I'm so allergic to peanuts I could stop breathing" sounds like something that would stick in a boy's mind for a while.

Well, yeah, but people are not always that explicit. My mother is allergic to shellfish like that, but she usually just says, "I can't eat shellfish; I'm allergic."

[wdlove]

Very sad. My prayers go out to the victim's family and friends. Feel very sorry for the boy, needs our prayers also.

[angelmb]

Originally Posted by ghporter

… but that boy is going to have a horrible life because his kiss killed a girl.

Exactly, hope the right people can help him with that terrible experience. they say love hurts, but that is too much…

[- - e r i k - -]

+5 Funny headline

[ghporter]

Chuck, on reflection (and with advice from both other adults and my teenage son) I have to say that you're right. This was such an odd situation, and the girl's reaction was so severe, it's hard to see a way for anyone to have been prepared for it.

Sad. Very sad.

[andi*pandi]

really very sad. poor kids.

[hickey]

my brother has severe allergic reactions to nuts and poultry, his doctor said it gets progressivley worse in his case. For example, he could have ate chicken and nuts when he was a baby and not had a bad reaction, but if he ate it now hed be screwed.