Posted by: Stephen Saban contact

It's Just Nuts

We may be carbon dating ourselves but we remember a day when no one had to make urgent phone calls all day long or was plagued with an insatiable thirst that required constant infusions of bottled H20. Really, as recently as the early '90s people were still surviving on dialing from home and enjoying a glass of water with lunch.

And when did this allergy to peanuts become such a commonplace menace? Christina Desforges, 15, died in a Quebec hospital Wednesday after doctors were unable to treat her allergic reaction to the kiss she received from her boyfriend the previous weekend. He had just eaten a peanut snack when he kissed her, and some of the nutty detritus on his lips was transferred onto hers during the moment of intimacy. The symptoms of peanut allergy (so called anaphylaxis) can include hives, plunging blood pressure, and swelling of the face and throat – all of which grade-schoolers in our day attributed to the rigors of recess, not our PB&J lunch.

You'd think, wouldn't you, that if young Desforges knew of her allergy, she'd have washed her lips off with water from her bottle of Arrowhead and used her cell to call 911.

(Photo: Posed by Carson Kressley professional model)

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