#peanut allergies

[lifeofapottedplant]

These chewy almond butter cookies are a great alternative for those with peanut allergies.

[mindblowingscience]

The FDA Just Approved Its First Drug to Treat Peanut Allergies in Kids

After the initial dose, it is increased every few weeks until after about six months, when the patient can tolerate the equivalent of about one peanut. In a study of nearly 500 children, two-thirds who received Palforzia could eat at least the equivalent of two peanuts.

The US Food and Drug Administration approved a drug to treat life-threatening allergic reactions for the approximately 1 million children in the US with peanut allergies.

The drug, Palforzia, can be used by children aged between 4 and 17 years old to mitigate potentially deadly reactions to peanut exposure. Though patients will still be encouraged to avoid any exposure to peanuts, the drug will be an added measure to help children in the case of accidental contact with peanuts.

"Even with strict avoidance, inadvertent exposures can and do occur," Peter Marks, the director of the FDA's Centre for Biologics Evaluation and Research, wrote in a statement.

"When used in conjunction with peanut avoidance, Palforzia provides an FDA-approved treatment option to help reduce the risk of these allergic reactions in children with peanut allergy."

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[overflowingbookshelf]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

It’s weird, Namjoon thinks. Probably really weird that he’s twenty-four years old, long-graduated University, happily employed at a literary agency… and still living with three other men. Well, two other men and the adult child squatting in the attic.

(Or... Yoongi came first, and Hoseok came next, and then they may or may not have kidnapped Jungkook.)

(But really... the world ends. They find their way home.)

[officialvinasundell]

So do you have any allergies

“I can’t have peanuts. Should probably tell @yale-the-tophat that before I eat lunch...anyway Cant have something that I tried in pills once...don’t ask...” vina looks down sadden

[pippinstook]

random ask

Random answer. 😘😂 Fun fact: I am severely allergic to peanuts. 😂

[modfarm]

A New Clinical Trial Shows Potential Long-Term Relief to Peanut Allergies

82 percent of the kids given the treatment showed increased tolerance for peanuts.

[howtohero]

#021 Support Squad

Being a big-time fancy shmancy internationally renowned superhero is a lot of work. Way more work than being just your average casually-stroll-around-the-same-six-blocks-in-your-neighborhood-hoping-someone-commits-an-easily-stoppable-crime-in-your-line-of-sight superhero. But you know what they say: if you’ve got great powers you’re basically morally responsible to do lots of good stuff with them. (If someone has a catchier way of saying this please, send a telegram.) Now all this added responsibility can be overwhelming for just one measly super person. It is conceivable that you’ll need help in accomplishing your goals of ridding the entire world of crimes. (A real hero would work tirelessly to dismantle and rebuild the social and political systems that create an environment where people even need to commit crimes, but whatevers, we’ll start small.) Which mean you’re going to need to start putting together your own superhero support squad.

The members of your support squad are the people you can count on to help you foil crimes and keep people safe. They’re the trainers who help you master your powers. They’re the omni-disciplinary scientists and engineers who build you cool super-gear. They’re the guys at base who quickly google the supervillains you come up against and help you devise the best way to stop them on the fly. (They’re the literate folk who quickly read through this handy dandy guide in order to help you get through situations such as infiltrating ancient temples, filling out insurance claims for your jetpack choir, and asking other heroes out on team-up adventures.) They’re the mechanics who help upkeep your fleet of hat-themed vehicles. They’re the tailors who design dynamic and striking (and comfortable and chic) costumes. They’re the doctors and police officers and firefighters [and lawyers] who often provide key assistance. They’re the random teenagers who one time stumbled upon your hideout by accident and since you can’t just make them disappear or lock them in a cell or something you have to give them something to do so they don’t go off and tell everyone about your secret (they’re basically like the unpaid college interns of the superhero world). A hero is only as good as the people who assist him or her in the heat of a battle. So making sure you have a good superhero support squad is key.

Now, since the most effective support squad is made up of people who actually know who you are it’s important to gather people who you know you can trust. Go through your close friends and acquaintances and see which of them might be useful. A good way to determine a friend’s viability as a member of your support squad is to give them some sort of quiz or questionnaire (quizstionnaire) that covers the following areas.

1. How big is your thirst for justice?     a. I have no thirst.     b. I have some thirst.     c. I have a moderate to severe thirst.     d. UNQUENCHABLE!!!! 2. How often do you reveal the deep dark secrets of your friends to the press?     a. About once a month.     b. Basically every month which has 31 days.     c. Leap years.     d. I never have and never will not even for a million billion bazillion dollars. 3. Do you know how to build a freeze ray on a budget?     a. No.     b. Uh… what kind of quiz is this?     c. I can build a freeze ray but it will be obscenely, prohibitively,     aggressively expensive.     d. Yes. 4. If given the opportunity would you gladly spend all your time helping a superhero fight crime?     a. Yes, gladly.     b. No, can I go now?     c. All of the above.     d. Wait that last one doesn’t make any sense.

If none of your friends perform well on that quiz, or you’re just friends with incompetent people with no useful skills, you should start befriending people who will actually be useful. Once you’ve assembled the people you want on your team you need to actually take the time to mold them into a functioning unit. That means it’s camping time. Take the new squad on a team-building outdoors retreat where you all can do trust falls and tell each other your deepest darkest secrets and do practice supervillain attack drills. Have one of your new squadders play the role of a random supervillain and have the rest of your squad come together to come up with an effective strategy to defeat them. Keep repeating this with different squadders portraying different supervillains until you’ve developed a workable, timely, supervillain response system that you can confidently implement in the field.

Now, once you’ve gotten yourself a support-squad you need to take extra precautions against bad guys who seek to hurt you. Keeping the identities of the people on your squad safe and secret is just as important as keeping your own identity safe and secret. Assign everyone codenames that you can use over comms when you’re fighting. Stuff like “Googler” or “McTypey Pants” or, hell, just call them by the wrong normal people names. Call your official superhero electrician Donald something like “Matt” or “Diana.” Really as long as you’re just not calling them by their real names you’re golden. Advise your team not to put “superhero support team member” on their social media profile or on their resumes as cool as that might be. Because that will get them kidnapped, tortured and possibly killed by supervillains. Tell them not to put down “Captain Thunder” or “Nightron” as references when applying for jobs. If they still do it anyway be sure to give them a terrible reference so they don’t get the job and they learn not to pull that kind of thing again. At the same time also make sure everyone on your team has some sort of device that can alert you immediately if they are in danger. If one of your squadmates gets captured, you need to make rescuing them your top priority. Drop everything else to save your bud. If you can’t have favorites when saving people what’s even the point. Also if -worse comes to worst- one of your squaddies does crack under pressure and gives up your secret identity or the location of your hideout or your favorite guilty pleasure film, don’t hold it against them. You should’ve been there to protect them. You can’t bring a person into your secret crusade against crime and then not save them when they’re kidnapped and endangered because of it. Also like you should move. Your base is definitely compromised. Also check to see if your dude hasn’t been Trojan-Horsed into some kind of mind-controlled lackey or living bomb. Supervillains loooove their mind-controlled lackeys and living bombs. 

Once you’ve put together a quality superhero support squad you’ll no doubt find that you’re able to operate as a better and more effective superhero. People perform better when they know someone has their back and having other people to assist with the parts of city-protecting or world-saving or galaxy-defending that you might not be best equipped to handle can only help things. Sure they might get annoying sometimes. You might need to get a bigger hideout. You might not all agree on the same type of music. Karen is allergic to peanuts and insists that nobody puts anything with peanuts in the team fridge. And also someone keeps stealing Karen’s lunch from the team fridge. Probably as revenge for the peanut thing. Maybe you should just invest in two fridges for your hideout. One with peanuts and one for Karen because she’s making things difficult but at the same time you’ve never seen a better mutant toucan trainer than her and it’s not like you’re going to give up your mutant toucan sidekick. Lots of little annoying things that you may need to deal with. But overall having a support squad means you can save more people and be better at doing it, and really isn’t that the whole point.

[whovianofthenight]

Recently I've been thinking a lot about my childhood (specifically my early school years) because of the whole nationwide-homeschool thing going on. My mom homeschooled me and my four siblings for close to seven years because our school district was just a flat out nightmare for people who need special accommodations, such as myself and my siblings.

In a nutshell, my siblings and I all have severe food allergies and varying levels of anxiety, which the school district could not. Figure out. How to accommodate. Honestly. My poor mother. All she asked for was a table at lunch that could be designated as peanut free. It's a very reasonable request, right?

For interested parties, here is a (probably incomplete) list of all the crap my elementary school made us put up with:

Made me eat lunch in the library every day, by myself, instead of designating a peanut free table.

Told me to pick a table and tell everyone that they weren't allowed to eat peanuts there. I was in third grade. No self respecting fifth grader is gonna take orders from a third grader. Teachers don't understand the hierarchy.

Put an itty-bitty table in the corner of the lunch room next to the lunch line so I could eat alone in a corner while being stared at by the entire student body

Told me I could only choose one friend to sit at the table with me, then made me clean up their mess afterward

Made my sister sit on the floor in the corner to eat her lunch instead of giving her. A friggin. TABLE. ITS NOT. THAT DIFFICULT.

SHELLED PEANUTS. IN THE CLASSROOM. ON THE FLOOR. LIKE DO YOU PEOPLE NOT UNDERSTAND. IF I TOUCH THAT, I WILL DIE. LITERALLY DIE. NOT EXAGGERATING. MY THROAT WILL SWELL SHUT AND I WILL DIE FROM ASPHYXIATION DO YOU REALLY WANT THE DEATH OF A SECOND GRADER ON YOUR CONSCIENCE I DONT THINK YOU DO

My childhood bully used to chase me around the playground with peanut butter on her hands. I was afraid for my life. School did nothing.

There was also that one infamous year where the janitor got so fed up with kids using up all the soap in the bathrooms that he just up and decided to stop refilling the soap dispensers. In an elementary school. During cold and flu season. Use your imagination. I bet you can guess how that turned out. School didn't care. School district was pissed, though.

Basically my school was such a nightmare that I had to start getting counseling in third grade and had to be put on anxiety meds. That I'm still on to this day. So this went on until I was in seventh grade (I'm not even going to get into the torture that was middle school). Halfway through seventh grade my mom pulled me and my two siblings who were currently in school out and began homeschooling us. For seven years. Like the superhero she is.

My two youngest siblings didn't step foot in a public school until we moved, and even then my mom wouldn't put them in an actual public school, she found a charter school that my aunt had enrolled her kids in so it was vetted already. It's amazing. I worked there for a like a week before the school district shut down. I wish I went to that school growing up.

So in all actuality I never went to public high school, except for one class in tenth grade, which was choir. I think the whole point of this was to say that people who homeschool are actual legitimate superheroes, it just took a while (and a lot of digressing) to get to the conclusion. Thank you for coming to my TED talk. I think. If for some strange reason anyone wants to chat about food allergies or sucky school stories feel free to send an ask or something. I've got lots more stories to tell.