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The weakening of the human race

Yesterday Orlette was made to sit on a separate table from her friends at holiday care because she had an omelette in her lunch box. 

 

She was, unsurprisingly given that she's five years old, a bit upset by this.

 

This morning when I dropped her off I questioned the staff member (politely of course because you can't really rely on a five year old for an accurate account) about the incident. 

 

Apparently there were FIVE children in the service yesterday that were at risk for anaphylactic reactions to egg.  FIVE! 

 

Sorry for the boomer energy but when did kids start coming out so defective? I didn't even know anyone with an egg allergy at school. In fact, apart from mate Simon who was allergic to peanuts, I didn't know anyone with any allergies. 

 

As an aside I did point out that perhaps with that many egg allergists in the room they could have had their own table rather than ostracizing my girl. The apartheid approach apparently emboldened one of the kids to tell her that she couldn't eat her Tunnocks caramel wafer. 

I'm not blaming them for having allergies. I just find it astonishing that in a random selection of children from one school there can be so many with anaphylactic egg allergies. 

But if you do have an allergy it is up to you to mitigate your exposure. 

Disappointed to open this thread and not see a revival of / update on the theory that emerged back in 2006 about human evolution:

The descendants of the genetic upper class would be tall, slim, healthy, attractive, intelligent, and creative and a far cry from the "underclass" humans who would have evolved into dim-witted, ugly, squat goblin-like creatures.

Sorry to hear about your daughter Alan. Tell her to show the kids with the egg allergies this article and that they’re going to become dim-witted, ugly, squat goblin-like creatures. They’ll be smashing scotch eggs followed by meringue for dessert in no time.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6057734.stm
 

Never even heard of anyone with an egg allergy before. Then five come along at once.

Not doubting these specific cases but I know of parents inventing allergies for their kids ("I gave her a grape in the hot sun and she went very red and seemed to have difficulty breathing") which after some years turned out to be absolute bollocks.

People will believe anything #5958537. Obviously their little darling is specialist expert. Total cocking absence of guidance from society. Schools as usual petrified of being sued.

To be fair to the school, they don't even stop you from putting nuts in lunch boxes. It's the private provider of before/after school and holiday care that has shat itself. 

 

I actually think what they did is riskier for the egg Dodgers because they might now assume that it's safe to share with other kids on their table and fall victim to egg wash poisoning from an innocuous-looking pie, if any of the children whose parents chuck them into day prison for the Easter holidays love them enough to make pies for their lunchbox. 

Incredible entitled boomer energy from the OP. 

And what sort of parent provides cold omelette for a child's lunchbox? Your child deserves to be ostracized. 

My child likes omelette, hot or cold, and we were out of bread, so it seemed like a sensible choice. 

 

I did note the boomer energy, and kids these days tone. 

But five kids in one room with anaphylactic egg allergies???

was it Bill Hicks who said the West has become so wealthy we're now allergic to food?

There were only two kids in my entire school (400 boarders) that had epi pens.  Neither of them allergic to eggs or peanuts.  

I really do question if there is an over reaction, or sometimes it's fashionable to have one of these allergies.

It's hard to blame the school though, imagine if they did nothing and a child ended up in hospital, the daily heil would have a field day blaming the lefty teachers.

Interestingly the spike is childhood allergies is greatest in Australia (9%). 

I've got 8 nieces / nephews. 

4 egg allergies

2 peanut allergies 

1 coconut allergy. 

 

I've seen varying reactions, so none of them are imagined (like my former colleague who claimed a tomato allergy, but just didn't like them). The reason is unknown. Morons will claim "we're too germ obsessed" but that's evidence free nonsense. 

 

My oldest brother as a child refused to eat tomatoes, just wouldn't touch them and no one could figure out why.  When he was about 18, he said, f this, I'll try a tomato.. turned out he was allergic.

The obsession of people who should know better with the latest fad is probably the worst first world curse. Law firms heaving with these c unts, obvs. What sort of real man admits to doing the 5:2 diet ffs. 

Its clearly not all just middle class worry and social contagion - are there any explanations?

Whilst I concede that its evidencr free  as am just shitposting on the internet, it did seem to me when I last looked that obsession with cleanliness and increasingly sanitisied modern living might be a playsible part of the answer. 

Any other theories?

Being OCD about hygiene is easier than finding real meaning to life, ditto fad diets. Real is shorthand Tom calm down. The number of ppl who behave in offices like alpha hunter gatherers, whilst their balls are kept in a jar by their wives Jiminy. 

And if your daughter's lunch had killed a child, how would you feel then?

Probably astounded that someone is 

(a) so allergic to eggs that they die from looking at an omelette; and

(b) still allowed to leave the house. 

 

I think it is the yank medical profession.

 

As a kid in the very early 80s I lived in the New World.

 

At a routine medical check up the doctor did some tests and told me I had loads of allergies and should be prescribed stuff for them. I was some what precocious and, aged 11, told him thank you for his advice, but I was going to ignore it. He was just trying to sell some pills. 

 

On a separate note I love the way 5 Guys has a massive pile of nuts when you go in. They seem to do just fine.

It's all rather odd.  Back in the 80's such things were so rare that it took years for a doctor to work out that I was always ill in the summer because I had hayfever.

I recently had a hospital appointment and was told by the most « let me guess » doctor ever he thought my condition was an allergy. It wasn’t and I had no allergies. The medical profession doesn’t like to be disagreed with so if they say allergy then that’s it.  Rarely is an egg allergy life threatening. 

That works for some allergies but I grew up in the country so I was constantly exposed to pollen and yet still ended up horribly allergic to it.  Certainly exposure helps the with severity because the most I've suffered is when I was at uni and early in my working life where I'd spend lots of time in urban areas with just occasional visits to the country but now that I spend most of my time in the country I only have a problem from time to time at specific times of year.

It's just hens' eggs and a bit of grated Emmenthal. Takes no longer than a sandwich

This is just clearly factually inaccurate.

Any person with a brain knows how long each of the individual tasks take to make an omelette and a sandwich, and the omelette takes longer.

 

I suppose it depends how cold your butter is and how stale your bread is. Plus how good your sandwiches are. 

It's an interesting point though, and I might put it to the test by timing both. It would include the taking stuff out and putting it away. I doubt there's much in it. 

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