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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
You aren't suggesting that metal geek is massively, massively overstating the actual, real risk, are you? I'll be pissed if you are, cause I wanted to do it first...
It is so amazing that somehow, some way, of these kids who are so allergic that simply touching something that was touched previously by someone else who ate a peanut butter sandwich will cause them to suffer a horrible, gruesome death in front of their classmates, stories about kids actually dying from this are nearly impossible to find.
Seriously, with miracles such as this, how on earth can anyone disagree that God assuredly exists?
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I think you are "massively massively" over simplifying the exposure, and obvisouly have no idea how severe allergys work.. it's not just simple contact in most cases.. that typically give rashes, irritation, hay fever type stuff that never goes reported. Typicaly the kid comes home feeling.."yucky" and thats the end of it.. The injestion is the real danger. Obvisouly a child dieing a horrible death in front of thier classmates would take a serious set of mistakes to happen, but it's likely high on the list of ways a child could die at school, which tend to be safe enviroments.
Typically severe reactions comes from eating a sufficient quantity of the allergen to trigger the reaction, which varies per child. If you are gonna eat a sufficient ammount of "peanut butter" from a lego, the first kids has to leave a rather large ammount, like a teaspoons size, and the second kids has to get that in his mouth somehow.
That's why as the kids get older, the second hand risk is lowered because by the time that are 6 or 7, giant blobs of random goo don't look as appealing as it once did. The kids are also more self aware, so random dirt from a hand rail gets washed off, and not licked off...
The point is, if the "peanuts" are not there in the first place, that chance is lower... it still exists but is way lower. As the kids get older the lunch "exchange" becomes a bigger problem so the "No Nut" policy stays in place.
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