Julie Bove wrote:

>
> I also know that my parents do not understand food allergies. My mom knows
> that she is allergic to eggs. So she does not eat eggs that are scrambled,
> hard boiled or fried. But she does eat cake, waffles and other foods
> containing eggs. She seems to think if she can not see them, they are not
> there. She will eat the allergen and then wonder why she has gotten sick.
> And lest you think she does not have life threatening allergies, I think she
> does, to some things. We used to dine at a particular Mexican restaurant
> and she said her throat close up when she drank their margaritas. But that
> didn't stop her from drinking them. I haven't a clue what the problem would
> have been with the margarita.
>


My husband's late aunt was PhD in science (entomology) and decided in
her declining years that she could not go out in public because she was
afraid of getting the flu. She said she couldn't get a flu shot because
she was allergic to albumen (egg, on which the virus is cultured.) Yet
she ate eggs for breakfast every day for the last 30 years of her life,
at least as evidenced by her food diary and the stacks of egg cartons in
her garage.

You can't convince people who don't want to be convinced.

gloria p