I didn't think that was the case. I thought that the number of allergens were relatively few. I'm not talking about the stuff Ben is having a go at above - ie 'oh, I'm allergic to..' but actual allergens as defined by the FSA.
I had a school friend who died from an allergic reaction when we were 20; she was just about to finish her first year of medical school. She was severely allergic to pretty much everything going (nuts, citrus fruit, strawberries, kiwis, lupins, pollen, gluten... I think her body just said NO! to all ingestible things from day one) so was hypervigilant about bringing her own food/cutlery/crockery wherever she went; unfortunately one day she made some toast at work in the nursing home she was HCAing in and the previous colleague hadn't washed the peanut butter off it completely or something so she went into anaphylaxis and died. Not before she was able to get her epipen out though, which had a manufacturing fault and didn't work properly (leading to a coroners hearing and the epipen company having to recall a lot of them). I don't play with allergies or intolerances, whatever your views are on whether they're real or not it's a very different perspective when you know the intimate details of how someone died from one that someone considered to not be their problem.
Much like the young girl who died on a plane because Pret A Manger mislabelled their sandwiches - anaphylaxis is a horrific way to die.
I have IBS and whilst my triggers are mainly 'standard' ones, I know people with more serious gut diseases like Crohns and Coeliacs disease who can land up in hospital if someone decides that they're being 'faddy' or 'fussy' about what they can and can't eat.
Anywho.
My moan for today is that I can't find a cattery who's open on Sunday to pick my cats up the day after our wedding; OH is getting ready in our house which only has two rooms big enough for him to change in really and there's about 6 or 7 people the cats don't know coming around so they need to be out the house for OH and their own sake. But because we're going on a mini-moon on the Monday morning after (and our friend can pop in and feed them for free that week) we need them back Sunday evening. But nowhere will do this, and all catteries are insisting we pick them up after 10am Monday morning.
I think it's possible to be allergic to anything. The FSA list which is 14 items so more than a few of them would take up a fair bit of space, and people with other allergies might assume that their problem item isn't in there if it's not on the front. Not everyone knows that the regulatory requirement is only to "bold" those 14 things. At the end of the day it's down to us to read the ingredient list to check for the things that are our particular problems. I wish I knew what it is in chinese takeaway food that sets my eyes off, but isn't used in anything else.
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I know a number of people who have allergies to things not on the FSA list - citrus, garlic, kiwi fruit, oily fish. That's before even starting on food intolerances which might not be life-threatening but aren't pleasant. Take it seriously folks.
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@NorthernJoe you describe allergies as fads and then tell us your mother is so allergic to the colour black that she can’t even wear it?
No I'm not I'm saying that at all. Just that there is supposed to be a significant increase in intolerance that are not medically diagnosed that people are self diagnosing after increased discussion in various media about them.
I am not talking about medically diagnosed allergies based on testing and evidence. For example I'm taking about a person reading about lactose intolerance in a magazine and convincing themselves they've got it too. Or simply deciding to cut something out because of what they've read.
I can't remember exactly but I think it came from one of those medical/ diet programmes where someone looks into the science behind something in the news like intolerance or the latest super food. There's a few such programmes, often prime time and hosted by a GP or medical doctor. There's two male twins or another solo guy presenting. You probably know the type of programmes. Slightly more trustworthy than the tabloids selling their paper with the latest health fear story, but not much more I suspect.
Anyway, made my point, it's not quite what some took it as and I've tried to clarify. If you still misinterprete it, hard luck I'm not going to explain it any more.
@takhana that's standard for cat and dog kennels over here. The proprietors are entitled to a day off too tho they still have to feed and clean of course, just not have people traipsing in and out.
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@takhana that's standard for cat and dog kennels over here. The proprietors are entitled to a day off too tho they still have to feed and clean of course, just not have people traipsing in and out.
Oh absolutely, all for a day off but actually most aren't having a day off - it seems most of them are closed one day in the week (Tuesday or Thursday) and only open until 12pm on a Saturday and Sunday. Most of the ones around here are very large as well, with multiple staff who like you say would be there on site anyway. Our wedding venue is at least 30 minutes from all the catteries so we won't make it to them before they close to pick them up in time; and we just want to pick them up by 2pm once we get back from the venue as on the Monday following we need to be 300 miles away by 2pm so won't really have time to pick them up then. I would've thought weekends would have been the most popular time for people to pick up their animals!
I think our only option is to put them in the living room for the morning then pay someone to come in and let them out when OH has left for the church. Not the best for them but there's no other options without the flexibility of others.
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Much like the young girl who died on a plane because Pret A Manger mislabelled their sandwiches - anaphylaxis is a horrific way to die.
I have IBS and whilst my triggers are mainly 'standard' ones, I know people with more serious gut diseases like Crohns and Coeliacs disease who can land up in hospital if someone decides that they're being 'faddy' or 'fussy' about what they can and can't eat.
Anywho.
My moan for today is that I can't find a cattery who's open on Sunday to pick my cats up the day after our wedding; OH is getting ready in our house which only has two rooms big enough for him to change in really and there's about 6 or 7 people the cats don't know coming around so they need to be out the house for OH and their own sake. But because we're going on a mini-moon on the Monday morning after (and our friend can pop in and feed them for free that week) we need them back Sunday evening. But nowhere will do this, and all catteries are insisting we pick them up after 10am Monday morning.
I am not talking about medically diagnosed allergies based on testing and evidence. For example I'm taking about a person reading about lactose intolerance in a magazine and convincing themselves they've got it too. Or simply deciding to cut something out because of what they've read.
I can't remember exactly but I think it came from one of those medical/ diet programmes where someone looks into the science behind something in the news like intolerance or the latest super food. There's a few such programmes, often prime time and hosted by a GP or medical doctor. There's two male twins or another solo guy presenting. You probably know the type of programmes. Slightly more trustworthy than the tabloids selling their paper with the latest health fear story, but not much more I suspect.
Anyway, made my point, it's not quite what some took it as and I've tried to clarify. If you still misinterprete it, hard luck I'm not going to explain it any more.
I think our only option is to put them in the living room for the morning then pay someone to come in and let them out when OH has left for the church. Not the best for them but there's no other options without the flexibility of others.