It is still a major problem to get people to take the condition seriously. My daughter has just started university (have I mentioned that?) and is sharing a kitchen. It is important that her flat mates realise that she could die unless her needs are taken into account. Part of the problem is that the sort of things you need to do  - eg not putting the peanut butter in the fridge or borrowing her knife - seem such trivial events people don’t think about them.

She flew recently and on the trip out everything was fine, the cabin staff had been notified and no nuts were served - in a closed environment like an aircraft people can have go into anaphylactic shock just from the nut oil in the air. On the way back they were just abusive - “no one informed us”, “it’s too late to do anything about it”. Obviously the carriers had been informed because they were on the way out. She survived, she’s at uni now - did I mention that?

(* http://www.hindawi.com/GetArticle.aspx?doi=10.1080/17402520500376277 )