My daughters best friend is allergic to peanuts and I can tell you that would suck if it was us. I know her parents quite well and they tell me the stories about it. For instance her dad is a huge stamps fan and loves to go to games, the first time that he took his daughter to a game someone was eating peanuts two rows in front of them and she started to swell up, they had to give her a shot from her epipen and leave.
Other times a kid ate a PB sandwich and still had some on their hands and touched her, same thing.
You see when she is touches, ingests or even around peanuts she will swell up and if not caught right away her throat will swell shut and she will die. She carries her epipen with her all the time, I cannot remember once seeing her and not having her pink pencil case that carries it.
So if a school can ban peanuts then it is worth it. Sure it does not affect everyone but if it can kill a kid then why risk it?
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