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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
There seems to be no distinction between "allergic to peanuts" and "deathly allergic to even passive second hand contact to peanut residue and dust".
How many kids out there are so allergic that they would die from touching a lego that was touched by another kid who had eaten a PBJ sandwich? I've got to think that the number is very small. We don't even know if it has ever happened in this country, but "parents of these kids live with it every day". Do they have to? Are these kids actually that sensitive to it? Food allergy deaths are extremely rare. How many of those few deaths are of this nature? Has anyone been told by a pediatrician that contact with a lego that another child has touched is going to kill the child?
I really don't care either way, I just think it is a strange overreaction. If there is a kid in that school who will die if he so much as touches a bit of peanut butter then fine, a total ban. If there is some kid in the school who can't eat a peanut butter sandwich then, well, don't eat a peanut butter sandwich.
If you want to compare it to driving past the park... a total ban on this stuff is like a total ban on driving near that park, even though nothing bad has ever really happened there.
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Its not about touching the lego or the nuts and haveing a reaction.. it where the kids hands go after. I don't know a spicific ammount of time, but I can say for sure there are a number of minutes every day that kids hand, pencils, shirt sleeves, and possibly even lego's end up in thier mouths.
Do you touch hand rails on stairs?... Some people do, some people who eat peanuts do and so do some people who are allergic to nuts. Most food reactions come when the person didn't know they were comming in contact with the food.
A total ban on peanuts is not like a total ban on driving. A total ban on eating at school would be the same. There are risks even at driving 20km in a school zone, there are risks with all the food that may contain nuts in a lunch room. All nut parents are asking is not to do the equilivent of 50km/h through thier kids class room. You watch your peanuts through our kids classroom, and I'll not do 50km/k through your kids soccerfield...
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