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Originally Posted by J pold
I really don’t think parents are that helpless when the kids are in school. And last I checked schools do a pretty good job of look after children’s unique needs. The parents should be teaching their kids at a young age how to manage their allergy. Schools should educating class rooms about the dangers of peanut and other allergies. If child’s allergy is so bad than they should be eating lunch in another room. Where peanuts are banned. If the allergy is common enough to consider banning peanuts from schools than they would surely have some company. Also making sure no one eats during class for the safety of the kid, I think this is a reasonable request.
I’m all for some precautions, marking products to say if they contains peanuts or not. But the extent that people are going to ridiculous. A couple of years ago my younger brother was in Elementary and I offered him some of my peanut butter toast. He had to refuse because he wasn’t allowed to eat any peanut products for breakfast in his own home. Now that too me is just ridiculous.
I’m allergic to cold temperatures. Essentially if anything is below 5 degrees (water, outside) than I have a pretty serious allergic reaction. I start breaking out in hives and my blood pressure starts decreasing rapidly. The winter is pretty bad, if I’m exposed to freezing temperatures for more than 5-10 minutes (depending on how cold it is) I have trouble breathing and become very light headed.
However like I mentioned before it’s my responsibility to make sure that I won’t be put into a situation where I can have a serious reaction. I constantly carry heavy jackets, tuks, mitts, whatever I need so that I don’t put myself in danger. If a child had my condition would it be right to ban the rest of the school from going outside for recess in the winter? I don’t think so. Would it be right to ban felid trips to places where you cold temperatures are present? Nope.
You realize the premise of my post was that I don’t want others support and that it’s my responsibility to take care of myself right?
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Man you have a terrible allergy....
I get the premise of your post, but your allergy has a different mechanism then nut allergys.
I think the end results of the allergy is compareable but you have different coping options. Once a kid eats peanuts he don't have the option to remove it. Like you opening a door in school and finding out it's a freezer. You slam the door shut and move on... the nut allergy kid gets epi or dies..
I'm not trying to downplay your allergy at all... Prolly harder to deal with then nut allergys, but there are so many hidden trap doors for nut allergy kids who aren't able to fully comprehend... Most adults can't.