GO ABBA GO!!!

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
You're just mad about the boobies.

Yes. Both of you.

TM

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
What I want to know is just how many kids have severe reactions to peanut products. According to this website: http://www.allerg.qc.ca/peanutallergy.htm#statistics , approximately 125 people die each year in the USA secondary to food-induced anaphylaxis. I did not read far enough to figure out how many of those people die from peanut exposure. And I certainly wouldn't want anyone who is severely allergic to have to suffer.

But I have never met anyone whose kid was that allergic to peanuts. My kid's school is apparently peanut-free, but I don't think there are any kids there who are deathly allergic. In fact, since it has never, ever been an issue, it totally slipped my mind that the school was peanut-free.

Do public schools have these policies? Or do kids who are allergic to peanuts have to go to private, peanut-free schools? Maybe this increases the number of allergic kids at private schools equipped to monitor peanut consumption?

It seems to me (and I could be wrong) that schools declare themselves to be peanut-free, whether or not they have any kids with peanut allergies that year. And once you're known as a peanut-free school, you have to maintain in case a parent with a child allergic to peanuts wants to enroll their child.

But I will tell you this: There are 100s of lunatic parents at my kid's school who overreact to everything in an effort to shield their child from absolutely anything they can think of. And I think 80% of the kids are on some kind of behavioral modification drug, as are their parents. It is truly amazing. If my daughter didn't love the place so much (what coddled, overprotected child wouldn't?) and if it wasn't necessary she go there for other reasons, I would yank her out of there so fast, her head would spin.

TM

My nephew is allergic to peanuts and other legumes and tree nuts. So far the worst that has happened is his mouth getting red and swollen. Probably luckily for him, the foods immediately make his mouth feel weird and he knows that's bad so he stops eating if his mouth feels weird and tells someone.

I don't know whether he is so allergic that he would actually go into anaphalactic shock if he somehow didn't notice and ate 1/2 cup of peanut butter or something. Given that he notices the reaction so quickly, I'm a little taken aback that my sister is sooooooooooo incredibly talky with restaurant staff. I guess it does avoid having to send something back and get a whole new meal, which would not be a fun experience with a hungry 6-year-old.

They take the epi-pen everywhere.

ETA he goes to private school, though not (to my knowledge) chi-chi. I think there is one class in each grade that is peanut-free.

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall

But I have never met anyone whose kid was that allergic to peanuts. My kid's school is apparently peanut-free, but I don't think there are any kids there who are deathly allergic. In fact, since it has never, ever been an issue, it totally slipped my mind that the school was peanut-free.

Do public schools have these policies?

Yes. My kid's school does, anyway.

Peanut allergies are exceedingly rare, but as I understand it there are at least one or two kids at our school that have some degree of the allergy.

Apropos of little, the chairman of my old firm was extremely allergic - I remember him explaining once how dining at restaurants becomes a very detailed experience because there are nuts in more food, sauces, etc. than you might think.

I wasn't quite sure how to handle the bit at our school because my kid (at the time) pretty much subsisted on nothing other than peanut butter. Fortunately, we have managed to expand his culinary horizons.

Gattigap

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
What I want to know is just how many kids have severe reactions to peanut products. According to this website: http://www.allerg.qc.ca/peanutallergy.htm#statistics , approximately 125 people die each year in the USA secondary to food-induced anaphylaxis. I did not read far enough to figure out how many of those people die from peanut exposure. And I certainly wouldn't want anyone who is severely allergic to have to suffer.

But I have never met anyone whose kid was that allergic to peanuts. My kid's school is apparently peanut-free, but I don't think there are any kids there who are deathly allergic. In fact, since it has never, ever been an issue, it totally slipped my mind that the school was peanut-free.

Do public schools have these policies? Or do kids who are allergic to peanuts have to go to private, peanut-free schools? Maybe this increases the number of allergic kids at private schools equipped to monitor peanut consumption?

It seems to me (and I could be wrong) that schools declare themselves to be peanut-free, whether or not they have any kids with peanut allergies that year. And once you're known as a peanut-free school, you have to maintain in case a parent with a child allergic to peanuts wants to enroll their child.

But I will tell you this: There are 100s of lunatic parents at my kid's school who overreact to everything in an effort to shield their child from absolutely anything they can think of. And I think 80% of the kids are on some kind of behavioral modification drug, as are their parents. It is truly amazing. If my daughter didn't love the place so much (what coddled, overprotected child wouldn't?) and if it wasn't necessary she go there for other reasons, I would yank her out of there so fast, her head would spin.

TM

When my kids was at the synagogue pre-school, there was a no-peanut policy.

Now that I've moved her to the fancy-schmancy prep school, pb&j and plain pb is offered in the cafeteria.

I do not know why this is so. But I am glad because pb&j is one of the few things the Brazenette will always eat.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
But I have never met anyone whose kid was that allergic to peanuts.
TM

A law school classmate died from anaphylactic shock after coming in contact with peanuts--they think from shaking hands with someone who had earlier grabbed a handful at the party.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
If my daughter didn't love the place so much (what coddled, overprotected child wouldn't?) and if it wasn't necessary she go there for other reasons, I would yank her out of there so fast, her head would spin.

TM

Is it a requirement that once you have kids you add this phrase to your vocabulary? I had a sudden flashback to high school just reading it. My head started to spin. Getting prepped already for the difficult high school years?

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
And I think 80% of the kids are on some kind of behavioral modification drug, as are their parents.

Word. In Jersey, the kids get sugar and TV instead of ritalin, the moms are all chain-smoking secret drunks and the dads are just drunk. It's all so fucking wholesome and refreshing, like the America I knew as a child. Who says you can't go back again?

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Is it a requirement that once you have kids you add this phrase to your vocabulary? I had a sudden flashback to high school just reading it. My head started to spin.

Probably. I haven't incorporated that phrase into my repetoire just yet, though recently I did add, "Goddammit, because I said so." Just hearing the words come out of my mouth made me reach reflexively for a scotch and water.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Blackened poke chops? I will go there on the 23rd.

TM

What's on the 23d?

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
*sigh*


In happier news, the weather finally turned, I have figured out a kick ass costume for the insane Halloween party I'm going to, and I'm going to LA to see the hot guy I met at Burning Man next weekend.

Décolletage?

I love Autumn.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Yes. Both of you.

TM

You want to see ppnyc's boobies? I am very confused.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Not Bob
Décolletage?

I love Autumn.

And bustier.

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
My nephew is allergic to peanuts and other legumes and tree nuts. So far the worst that has happened is his mouth getting red and swollen. Probably luckily for him, the foods immediately make his mouth feel weird and he knows that's bad so he stops eating if his mouth feels weird and tells someone.

I don't know whether he is so allergic that he would actually go into anaphalactic shock if he somehow didn't notice and ate 1/2 cup of peanut butter or something. Given that he notices the reaction so quickly, I'm a little taken aback that my sister is sooooooooooo incredibly talky with restaurant staff. I guess it does avoid having to send something back and get a whole new meal, which would not be a fun experience with a hungry 6-year-old.

They take the epi-pen everywhere.

ETA he goes to private school, though not (to my knowledge) chi-chi. I think there is one class in each grade that is peanut-free.

As their bodies are able to handle the proteins, some kids will grow out of allergies. The peanut allergy is one that they rarely grow out of.

As a rule of thumb, each time you are exposed to the substance, your reaction will be worse and set in quicker than before. That's one of the reasons why folks tend to be so paranoid. You don't really know how many strikes you have until you are out.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
My nephew is allergic to peanuts and other legumes and tree nuts. So far the worst that has happened is his mouth getting red and swollen. Probably luckily for him, the foods immediately make his mouth feel weird and he knows that's bad so he stops eating if his mouth feels weird and tells someone.

I don't know whether he is so allergic that he would actually go into anaphalactic shock if he somehow didn't notice and ate 1/2 cup of peanut butter or something. Given that he notices the reaction so quickly, I'm a little taken aback that my sister is sooooooooooo incredibly talky with restaurant staff. I guess it does avoid having to send something back and get a whole new meal, which would not be a fun experience with a hungry 6-year-old.

They take the epi-pen everywhere.

ETA he goes to private school, though not (to my knowledge) chi-chi. I think there is one class in each grade that is peanut-free.

Everything you posted seems perfectly sensible. If your kid is allergic to peanuts, his parents should make sure nothing served to him has peanuts or peanut oil. Why should he have to have an allergic reaction which could be easily avoided with a question?

And his school seems to have taken appropriate steps to shield those who have reactions to peanuts.

But I guarantee you that the strict no peanut policy at my daughter's school was implemented and is maintained because there is one kid whose mouth gets red and a little swollen if he has a peanut.

TM

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
A law school classmate died from anaphylactic shock after coming in contact with peanuts--they think from shaking hands with someone who had earlier grabbed a handful at the party.

An associate at my firm died from anaphylactic shock.