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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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You can't be serious? Comparing your allergy to a food allergy? My daughter also has the same allergy as you, as well as being allergic to tree nuts and fur. For instance, she will break out in hives when she is running through the sprinkler in the summer time.
That allergy is easy to manage for us. We make sure she dresses warm and always has a tuque, mitts, and a scarf during the winter. With the exception of the odd argument when I insist she wears a warmer coat on a morning like today, it is an allergy that is pretty stress free as a parent.
Nuts on the other hand can kill her. She could be exposed to nuts without even knowing it, traces of nuts on a desk, nut residue on a hand etc.etc. When it comes to cold temperatures, its pretty easy to look at the thermometer and determine if she is at risk or not.