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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
The peanut allergy kid will have to learn to avoid peanut on her own anyway- right? That kid will either learn to not go near nuts at the mall, or he'll die.
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But I don't think you could teach a 4 year old to look at something and know whether the ingredients include egg or nuts (i.e., learn to not go near nuts). But....you're right - the child probably will be exposed to nuts/eggs at some point and she just may end up like the 14 year old who died after kissing a guy who had peanut butter a few hours earlier. I guess the parents can only try their hardest to delay that moment as much as possible. I think it all comes down to: just because one child has a severe allergy to peanuts, should the rights of other kids to eat peanuts at school be taken away? But is it really so extreme to prohibit peanut butter and jelly at public school? Seems to me, kiddos get out of school pretty early and can chow down on PB&J's then (but don't ruin your dinner!).
Anyhow, thanks for the input everyone and I did not know that many schools are peanut butter free. I'm still looking for some advocacy group for child allergies on the internet. I would think that would be a great resource.
Thanks again.
