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Originally Posted by GGG
Interesting article on why not to ban peanuts. Not sure of the validity or quality of the website as I was just googling trying find if bans have been effective at reducing deaths. It presents some interesting points
http://www.calgaryallergy.ca/Article.../whynotban.htm |
Some of that is pretty simplistic and doesn't really help solve any of the problems. Like I said before, it is the school that insists on having the ban. Personally I never would have thought in a million years that any school would ever consider having a food ban of any kind. I never gave it much thought even after my daughter was diagnosed by a specialist as having allergies to tree nuts. Because of the fear of litigation I feel that regardless how I feel about it as a parent, the schools will continue to protect themselves from potential lawsuits by keeping the bans in place.
Just because the school has a ban on nuts does not mean that the parents or the children will become complacent or lackadaisical when it comes to the reality of the child's allergies. Like Flames Mom stated, there is no such thing as a nut free anything. Pretty much every restaurant or home has nuts or traces of some kind of nuts kicking around. You always have to be aware and careful wherever you are.
The part about educating your child is a little insulting. To think that schools are putting bans on nuts because the parents are not educating their own children about the realities of their life threatening allergies is ridiculous. Of course we are teaching the children to be carefull and to know what they are eating. One has to remember that a 5 or 6 year old kid is just learning to read. So they can not read food labels themselves. Young kids do not have a full understanding of their consequences either. As they age and become wiser and more experienced they need to be supervised less and less because they understand and can make better decisions themselves. At early ages though, and I know anyone with kids can relate, you need to help them understand. They can't always be trusted to do the right thing or to think of every consequence themselves.