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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 7 year old son has a severe allergy to peanuts.  We carry an epipen (epinephrine injection) with us every time we leave the house as he could potentially die from allergic shock if he is exposed to peanuts.  We don’t know whether he can breathe peanut dust or touch peanuts without going into shock and obviously aren’t going to test that.  He’s had medical tests and all they can tell us is his allergy to peanuts is off the charts.

The Southwest news is good news as now we can fly Southwest but as prior posters have noted our choice was to either fly another airline or not fly at all.  We didn’t complain about not being able to fly Southwest as there are certainly many people who have limited choices for any number of reasons and this was just ours.

My guess is that Southwest looked at the growing number of young children with peanut allergies (no one knows why but the incidence of food allergies generally and peanut allergies which are typically the most deadly) have been rising for awhile and just made a simple business decision of how many customers are they losing from peanut allergies versus how many would they lose if they eliminated peanuts as do many airlines have done awhile ago.[/quote]

I don't understand this.  Southwest isn't banning people from bringing peanut products on board.  You have no idea if the person who sat in the seat before your son did (or is sitting next to him currently) was eating peanuts.  This is just a single source of nuts that sure, helps, but if the allergy is this severe, how can you risk flying?[/quote]

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