peanut allergy

OUTLINE - PRESENTATION 1
Title: Peanut Allergy
Specific purpose: To inform my audience about the peanut allergy.
Central Idea: There are many causes that can occur from the peanut allergy such as direct contact, cross-contact and inhalation.

Introduction
Attention Getter: Jock Roy, 55, a businessman from Hanover, has suffered from peanut allergies after he bit a peanut butter sandwich at a birthday party nearly 50 years ago. He described his reactions as beginning with an itchy sensation in the mouth and throat followed by a feeling of sickness of the throat lasting up to four hours.
Reveal The Topic: The case above occur from the peanut allergy. Peanut allergy is one of the most serious of the direct allergic reactions to foods in terms of persistence.
Establish Credibility: I have a friend that faced with the peanut allergy. When she eats a product contain peanut, she will feel itchy in her mouth. Her skin will be irritation, redness and she hard to inhale. She also has been admitted to the hospital with hives and wheezing after eating chocolate with peanut. When she was a kid, she faces with hive after she put her hand into a cake mix containing peanut. She also has a history of chronic rhinitis, cough and a previous hospitalization for recurrent wheezing.
Preview: There are many causes that can occur from the peanut allergy such as direct contact, cross-contact and inhalation.

Body: 1. Firstly, the cause that can occur from the peanut allergy is direct contact.
A. Direct contact with peanuts occurs when someone eating peanuts or foods which contain peanuts that can produce an allergic reaction and some people also has an experience symptom when they touch the peanuts.

a) Examples of foods that contain peanut are peanut chocolate, peanut butter sandwich and peanut biscuit.

b) The skin will react with hives that can spread over the entire body when someone touching the peanut.

c) All the allergic reactions that people suffer from a peanut can be the most severe to the point that it can cause to death. Being highly allergic can be scary and put fear in a person's heart.

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