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Sixty seconds on . . . food allergies
BMJ 2024; 386 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q1724 (Published 05 August 2024) Cite this as: BMJ 2024;386:q1724
- Abi Rimmer
- The BMJ
Should I put my peanuts away?
We often hear announcements on aeroplanes asking us not to eat any nut products on a flight, for the sake of a passenger with allergies. However, it turns out that this precaution may not be necessary.
That’s nuts!
Apparently not. A systematic review commissioned by the UK Civil Aviation Authority1 has found that, in a typical passenger with a food allergy, the risk of having an allergic reaction on a commercial flight is lower than on the ground.
Cracking findings
Indeed. Paul Turner, an expert in food allergy at Imperial …
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