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With milk, I'm lactose intolerant to the milk in US but not in India. Cow vs buffalo is one difference.
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I understand your position. But (there's always a "but") I have a friend whose kid is severely allergic, their daycare didn't take it particularly seriously(!), for reasons similar to yours. So of course one day there is a PBJ near the kid, he has a crazy reaction, the staff call the parents "we're afraid to use the epipen" at which point the mom hangs up and calls 911 herself, invoke FMLA and has to hightail to the…
"The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) is a United States federal law requiring covered employers to provide employees with job-protected and unpaid leave for qualified medical and family reasons." (Wikipedia via Google)
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This is a ridiculous statement, similar in tone to reactions in Western media any time any Indian achievement (space, medicine etc.) is mentioned, and reeks of arrogance. Peanut allergy is largely unheard of in India across a wide range of geographies and socio-economic classes. There are literally hundreds of millions of Indians who do not die of improper sanitation, and who don't have peanut allergies. Instead of l…
So basically, OP is justified in calling a condition that can kill someone a "first world problem." However, responding to that calling out problems with India's sanitation in response is somehow especially arrogant? Aren't both of those at about the same level of dismissiveness? I'm not advocating for either behavior, but it seems to me that some people only want to others to learn from their experience and not the…
If this was an article about bad sanitation in India, and someone came and said that diseases like typhoid were a third world problem because the first world had good sanitation, that would be okay (even if obvious and unnecessary).
The discussion here is about allergies, and OP is right in saying that they are largely a first world problem. The rebuke about sanitation practices is irrelevant to that discussion. It's not as if those Indians who live in cities with good sanitation and manage to not get typhoid have a lot of allergies.
Never drive an emergency to the hospital. Always call an ambulance.
[1] https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/study-finds-pe...