For some children, a bite into a cupcake, a sip of milk, a whiff of peanut butter can be deadly. Parents who entrust their children to public schools say they struggle to get teachers and administrators to understand the gravity of food allergies. 

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What experiences have you had in coping with food allergies and the difficulties they pose for you or your children?

Both squash and sea urchin make me want to throw up.  Does that count?
Anyway, it’s not hard to avoid either one of those, and fortunately, nobody seems interested in combining the two.

Their numbers of people in the US is a bit off.
The latest number is 90 million.
Symptoms can range from lethargy to death.
MSG is one of the biggest culprits.  Once sensitized to this there can be a cascade to almost everything else. 

They forgot to add to thei list of symptoms, headache, ear ache, flu like symptoms, lack of ability to conentrate, lack of ability to focus the eyes, dizzyiness, sometimes temporary blindness, & the desire to sleep.
There are more.  See Here:http://truthinlabeling.org/adversereactions.html

Isn’t it quant that now that MSG is in almost everything, big pharma is coming out with a glutamate blocker?

MSG is in a plant growth regualtor that is being used on 72 food crops.  YOur veggies are no longer safe.  Not even the ones labeld “Organic”, because MSG, by some wild stretch of logic is considered “natural">

http://truthinlabeling.org/

If MSG is not harmful, why is it hidden under so many pseudonyms?

OhZone - 04 November 2007 07:05 PM

...lack of ability to conentrate, lack of ability to focus the eyes, dizzyiness, sometimes temporary blindness, & the desire to sleep.
There are more.  See Here:http://truthinlabeling.org/adversereactions.html

Isn’t it quant that now that MSG is in almost everything, big pharma is coming out with a glutamate blocker?

MSG is in a plant growth regualtor that is being used on 72 food crops.  YOur veggies are no longer safe.  Not even the ones labeld “Organic”, because MSG, by some wild stretch of logic is considered “natural">

I hear it also affects one’s ability to spell correctly…

You are right on there techie.