Author: Dyemaniacal

We always brag about how great the chefs are at Disney restaurants. On our recent trip to Disney Land (July-August), on our last day of a great trip thus far. We were going to eat breakfast, go to Downtown Disney and then catch our flight home. The unthinkable happened at the Storytellers Cafe while having breakfast. We were eating at one of the Disney Buffets, and like on many other occasions, the chef came out to write down our daughters food allergies. She is allergic to Peanuts, Tree-nuts, Eggs, and Dairy. A tall list indeed, but you have to remember that we have taken her to many Restaurants with Disney, including a Disney cruise and never had any issues.

This time however, the chef served her something that had eggs in it, even though he had written down her allergies. My poor daughter had an allergic reaction in the restaurant. It wasn’t as bad as ones that she had in the past but she was in distress and did vomit multiple times, while we were trying to give her Benadryl. Disney did send a nurse and fire fighter to the scene.

The thing that really pissed me off, was that I had asked the waitstaff if the chef could come out and explain what it was that caused this. As a parent that is always on the lookout for things that she might be allergic to that may have changed or be something new. It took sending 4 different people to the kitchen, with each one promising to return before finally a different chef came out and admitted the mistake, stating that one of the items had eggs in it.

The manager told us that our meal was on them. Thanks for putting my daughters life at risk and giving us a free breakfast, jeesh. I thought for sure, this is Disney, someone will reach out to us and Disney would somehow make things right. Well they aren’t the company that I thought they were.

As I have mentioned before, our daughter has severe food allergies. There are many challenges with seeing to her safety. One of the things that all parents of children that are allergic to peanuts knows is that a plane can be a very dangerous place for a person with peanut allergies.

Almost all airlines serve nuts, and almost all airlines could care less about anyones allergies much less them being humans that deserve a certain amount of respect. Recent events on the news highlights just how little airlines care about people. There are a number of blogs where people with peanut allergies have shared just how little airlines care about our issues. Some airlines are better than others, but almost all of them have had issues where certain flight crews didn’t follow the airlines policies.

Although our daughter has flown once, we are very aware of the dangers, and that was a very stressful situation. When you are in the air at 34,000 feet and something goes wrong, minutes matter. Most people don’t seem to realize that an EpiPen only buys you about 15 minutes of relief if it works. Severe reactions may not be stopped. So if your a parent and something goes wrong on an airline and you have two EpiPens you technically have about 30 minutes of relief should you need it. That means from the moment you inject someone, they have 30 minutes to be in an ambulance where hopefully they have more EpiPens or epinephrine. If you’ve ever flown you know that those jets take 15 minutes just to taxi down a runway, that doesn’t leave the plane much time to find an airport and land. And of course thats if you get 15 minutes, you may get way less from each EpiPen. I’ve read stories of people that had to take two back to back immediately to stop an episode.

Now I’ve read plenty of Peanut allergy sites about planes making emergency landings due to an event on the plane. And on the flip side I’ve read a number of blogs of people who fly all the time with peanut allergies. (It should be noted that peanut allergies aren’t a one size fits all issue. Some people are mildly allergic and some like our daughter are severely allergic.) There are a number of things that people do, from wiping down the seat and tray, seat and tray covers, dust masks, asking the airline to make announcements and asking if they won’t serve nuts.

On two recent flights that I took with two different airlines, I noticed that there was plenty of peanut particles all over the floor of both planes. And I believe that when people due have an issue on a plane it is most likely that they touched something rather than breathed in something. My little girl is constantly exploring and then touching her face. When she flew the first time she was in a carseat on the plane and only an infant. So it was easy to ensure that she couldn’t touch anything. Now that she’s older, not so much. We have seen what happens with her when she does hive out, a term we use to describe her having a severe allergic reaction. Its a very scary event.

Now I want to show her the world safely, but how to do it. We have driven all over the United States, due to job changes. Driving presents some issues as well, if something goes wrong you could potentially be hundreds of miles from help. But you do control the cars environment. However, trying to visit places when you live on a coast thats far from some of the major attractions (we are huge Disney fans) can be challenging. Do we take extra time off so that we can drive there and back or risk flying and the convenience of being there in just a few hours.

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