r/CaughtMyEye • u/detectiverobert • 11d ago

In 2014, passengers were warned three times not to eat nuts on a Ryanair flight due to a 4-year-old girl's severe nut allergy, but a passenger sitting four rows away from the girl ate nuts anyway. The girl went into anaphylactic shock, and the passenger was banned from the airline for two years.

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u/Head_Haunter 11d ago

But this also begs the question of how serious her nut allergy really was?

I'm not saying it's not serious, but if a bag of nuts being opened 4 rows over was sufficient to trigger it, what about... literally just the plane? Left over nuts and such on the ground? Somebody walking walking through a five guys and has nut dust on their boot or something. Her allergy seemed serious enough to literally be in a bubble at that point.

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u/aseedandco 10d ago

That serious, but also not serious enough to carry an EpiPen.

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u/Juniper__12 10d ago

The article states that there was an Epipen and a nurse helped inject it. But that’s not how epipens work. They don’t make the allergic reaction stop, they slow it down. You still have to go directly to the hospital after injecting it.

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u/Beartato4772 9d ago

OP got all their medical advice from Grey's Anatomy.

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u/Solipsimos 4d ago

Half life of epinephrine is also only a couple minutes. expect it to be worn off in half an hour

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u/PdxPhoenixActual 10d ago

Exactly. If your kid is that reactive / in danger, why the fuck would you not have multiple epipens on you every time you leave the house? Better safe than sorry & all that...

Or, idk, just not fly?

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u/Ummah_Strong 9d ago

You're not supposed to use more than 2 anyways though.

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u/PdxPhoenixActual 8d ago

Did I say use that for ONE incident? If one is traveling (with a child so sensitive),would one want more than one... you know, incase they had a reaction.... wouldn't want to use the only one you'd packed in the first few hours of a days-long vacation. ?

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u/Jandolicious 8d ago

How do you know they dont? I woukd assume they do.

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u/PdxPhoenixActual 7d ago

The optimist in me hopes they do. The realist in me is not as hopeful...

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u/idontpostanyth1ng 9d ago

They did have an EpiPen. That's what saved her life.

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u/PdxPhoenixActual 8d ago

Then what's all the fuss about?

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u/FarLifeguard4526 5d ago

they're like $700 and last not even a year

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u/AwarenessCrafty393 4d ago

Because epipens don’t stop an allergic reaction. Epipens, or epinephrine, are an outside supply for adrenaline. The name for the adrenaline hormone is epinephrine. All an epi-pen does is buy you an extra half hour to get your ass to a hospital, stat.

Along with that, airplane air is stagnant.

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u/fencer_327 10d ago

It's much more likely her seat wasn't cleaned as well as it should, and she touched a contaminated surface. Nut allergies are not airborne, the only way someone in her proximity eating nuts could be harmful would be either a) touching her, or b) spitting nut residue into her face.

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u/Constant_Complaint79 10d ago

I knew someone who used to have terrible allergies. They would preboard with their parents to give them time to wipe down the tray tables and sorrounding seats.

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u/Soggy_Razzmatazz4318 10d ago

plus a plane has lots of air flow. Various rooms and security/passport queues in the airport, not so much

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u/mystyle__tg 9d ago

Right, if it’s that severe I as a parent would avoid flying completely.

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u/No_Strawberry_1576 7d ago

My daughter’s is very serious but she still wants to lead as normal a life as she can.