SC - Re: Allergies in General

[Ian Gourdon]

> Re: Allergies in General
> 
> > Just out of curiousity, we have had at least one death directly
> > related to allergies at an SCA feast in Meridies and several
> > close calls I seem to remember also.  The Gentle who died was
> > very allergic to eggplant, knew he was eating it and failed to 
> > get to his medicine in time to save his life.  No onus was put
> > on the feastcrat as the gentle knew what he was eating.  
> 
>         Just to clarify, the gentle was also deathly allergic to pine trees and
> outside leaf mold and dust.  He was in the habit of forgetting his meds
> quite often, and his Lady was usually quite put out with him about it. 
> Sites in Meridies are not short on pine trees, leaf mold and dust, btw. 
> The eggplant at feast was merely a 'topper' as it were.  
>         Christianna
> who spent a long time making sure the feastcrat in question was NOT at fault

Just another reason to put out recipes or ingredient lists for the feast
going public; my Lady and I tend to prefer feast booklets at the table,
as she gets a 24 hour headache from nutmeg. We always ask when it's not
otherwise posted, but in the rush of serving up the feast, sometime the
cook doesn't remember where the nutmeg is, as happened to us a while
back. I personally would vote for it being a mandate. One gentle who
DIDN'T happen to know about the (to them) deadly-alergic-causing-food
would be one too many, I'd think.
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Ian Gourdon of Glen Awe, OP
Known as a forester of the Greenwood, Midrealm
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