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Mon, 12/18/2000 - 06:27

Jonathan's Mom

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I though I posted this on Friday, but can't find it by searching. (I must of hit a wrong button.) Anyway, we recently received 2 recliners and a couch from my mother-in-law to fill the rec room in our new home. After being in the house for 2-3 weeks, my husband found a half of peanut on our rec room floor. My house is peanut and nut free, because my 2 year old is PA. I'm grateful that it was my husband and not my son who found the dreaded peanut. We avoided a serious and dangerous situation. We can only think that the peanut came from "inside" one of the recliners, because the cushions were removed when we moved them in to the house. It's very scary, and everyday we're checking the floor looking for more. I would have never thought that a peanut could make it into our house, and wanted to warn others of this possibilty.

Mon, 12/18/2000 - 07:48

Anonymous

Hi Jonathan's Mom,

You haven't lost your mind [img]http://uumor.pair.com/nutalle2/peanutallergy/wink.gif[/img]...you posted this incident on the *Alert* board.

It's better to have the information posted twice than not at all! Thanks for letting us know what happened. You're right...better your husband found the peanut rather than your son. I don't even want to imagine what could have happened.

Thanks for posting this. I'm sure other people will look through the cushions, etc. of used furniture to make sure it is *safe* before bringing it into their house.

You gave us something to think about.

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Stay Safe.

Mon, 08/13/2001 - 14:34

Mookie

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Several years ago I lived in my first apartment and my girlfriend gave me a really nice stuffed chair. About 2 weeks later I started sneezing and got a real scratchy throat. I thought I was getting a cold. Then it dawned on me. I called her and asked her if the chair came from a home which had cats or dogs and she confirmed that it did. I am highly allergic to cats and dogs and had to get rid of the chair. I no longer accept any stuffed or blanket-type items because you never know how the item was used in it's previous life.

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