Comments on: Peanut Allergy (over) Reactions

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Mon, 31 May 2010 07:52:19 +0000

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by: mike

Thu, 06 May 2010 04:13:15 +0000

The point about what the anonymous non-allergic teen is thinking about the friends is sort of dubious. I would never befriend someone who wanted me to restrict my diet for any substantial amount of time. They could go to normal school, but if they have no friends, that takes much of the benefit.
Of course, part of the reason is simple taste and convenience. I love nuts and foods made with them.
Another reason is that most of the affordable, healthy, portable, strongly satiating snack foods other than simple fruits and vegetables (which are not always enough) contain nuts or peanuts. Kashi granola bars are an example. The nut-free snacks typically suggested under nut-free policies are not at all nutritionally acceptable.
You can order some from nut-free sources (which contain seeds, which some policies also restrict), but I would be totally unwilling to undertake that sort of expense.
Like it or not, the medical evidence of health benefits from eating nuts is very strong. Therefore, we need to see eating nuts as a right. There can be small limitations on it (such as keeping out of a certain classroom, keeping it at a certain table, etc.) It is not a mere taste issue. Therefore, nut-allergic people are, in fact, misfits. There is no way around that.
Morally, no one has the right to massively restrict the consumption of a healthy food from a large number of people.
Another major issue is the extremely litigious nature of demanding allergic people. They think that if they touch shared surfaces, touch their faces, and have reactions, they think it is the fault of the nut-eating person. That is the most foolish idea ever conceived. It is always the responsibility of the allergic person to watch out for himself/herself.
Nut bans legitimize the absurd idea. Lawsuits will abound and nut-eating will essentially end (due to the fear of an accident and resulting lawsuit) and harm healthy people. That should not be allowed to happen.
Now, others can be compassionate and avoid nuts in one’s lunch to sit in the classroom with the allergic person. That is very laudable, but should not be coerced.
Nut-allergic have to accept that they are abnormal and should get used to it. They cannot have a care-free life and freely touch shared surfaces and eat in cafeterias or restaurants. They are in the minority and must learn to cope with the world and not massive transform the world to fit themselves.

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by: Anonymous

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 00:54:17 +0000

Well. This is ridiculous.

As a non-allergic teen, I don’t see the problem with peanut/tree nut bans. I do not eat peanut products, but I love pistachios, yet by some miracle I can survive through the school day without eating them. To those people who are for whatever reason inflamed about the inconvenience a peanut/tree nut ban is causing you, I remind you of the following:
1. It is not the fault of an allergic child or their parents that they have allergies.
2. If you or your child can’t go without a particular food for 6 hours, then they are spoiled. Hate to break it to you, but in the real world we can’t always have what we want whenever we want it.
3. Even if this is a major inconvenience to you (such as in the case of Vegan Mom) I am sure there are ways to deal with it. I may be no athlete, but there are days when I, for whatever reason, have to go without eating lunch, period. Guess what: I’m still alive and thriving. Peanuts and tree nuts are something we can all find ways to do without.
4. Allergic children can DIE upon exposure to allergies. No one has ever died from lack of peanut butter.
5. Allergic children have the right to enjoy normal lives, such as having friends and going to a normal school How would YOU feel if someone told you that your child was a nuisance, an inconvenience, and should be homeschooled because of something beyond his control? If you are really so desperate to give your kids peanut products, then why don’t YOU try homeschooling - there aren’t any peanut bans there.
6. Peanut allergic children are just as much people as anyone else, and have the right to a good life. I doubt that any of the people who are moaning about how allergic children inconvenience them could walk up to an allergic child and tell them, “You’re less of a person and less important than my child because you’re allergic to peanuts”. So please.

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Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:29:34 +0000

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by: Mike

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:28:58 +0000

Reading this forum has been extremely eye-opening for me - it reminded me of my own ignorance.
My 2 yr old daughter (now 6) was allergic to milk protein (she luckily grew out of it). It wasn’t severe, but it made her quite uncomfortable, especially when the daycare centre director decided on her own to start her back on milk without consulting me or my wife. The fallout wasn’t pretty, but we’ve moved on after exchanging words and removing our daughter.
When our daughter started school, I (in my ignorance) was dismayed to find out that her school was peanut-free, due to a couple of children with severe peanut allergies. I didn’t like the fact that another kid’s dietary limitations were going to impact what my daughter could bring to school and eat. I used to even joke that kids with peanut allergies should have their own school.
Then my 2 yr old had an anaphalactic response to a chocolate bar. It wasn’t immediate, but we ended up in the emergency room where he received an epi shot and some benadryl. His peanut allergy was later confirmed by an allergist. (FYI - NEITHER MY WIFE NOR I HAVE FOOD ALLERGIES.)
Want to know the weirdest part? He’d been exposed to peanuts and tree nuts before (not massive quantities), but just never reacted to it!!
I guess you can call it karma.
Our lifestyle change hasn’t been that severe (surprisingly), and thankfully there is an abundance of information out there (restaurants, menus, etc.). We just keep our fingers crossed and our hearts filled with hope that an appropriate treatment will be found soon that will at least mitigate the risk of a response to peanut exposure.
To those parents of non-allergic kids - let this serve as a warning. I hope you don’t wake up one day to find out that your own otherwise extremely healthy and athletic child has a severe allergy, like I did.
To the parents of kids with food allergies - thanks for sharing.

by: KV

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:16:40 +0000

My goodness. There are so many food options and lunch options available and you are incensed about not being allowed to eat peanut butter? It seems selfish. Greedy. “my daughter MUST have her peanut butter! Nevermind, a child could DIE from it. There is only 1 kid out of 100, so the 99 others should not have to suffer, he should just risk his life every single day at school, or not even get to go to school due to an allergy that is out of his control” Yikes. You need your daughter to have her peanut butter and jelly so badly, that you want to deprive a peanut allergic child the right to go to school with other children and enjoy his/her life as close to normal as possible without living in fear of anaphalaxis or death? All this over a peanut butter sandwich. Petty. The fact is that nomatter what the stats and percentages are, some children do DIE from eating peanuts. We shouldnt have ANYTHING in schools that can kill children, even 1 child is too many to lose to something we can control by elimination/banning. Nomatter how few children there are with the allergy….it doesnt matter, one child’s life is too many. You never know when a life-threatening food allergy can crop up for a child, if your child spontaneously developed the allergy, you would want her to enjoy her life, playing and learning with classmates in school and not fearing for her LIFE every single day. People, put yorselves in the shoes of the children whose lives are threatened. I’m so sorry you dont understand the danger and severity of this problem…….if it was your kid, you would.

by: Lenmo

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:02:30 +0000

Called survival of the fittest. You eat something bad you get sick or die, you have no offspring to carry the gene on. Now would we be able to call ourselves human if we didn’t have compansion and stop this heinous activity from happening? We must interfere and carry the gene on by catering to the weak and promote the proliferation of the infamous peanut butter gene. Why don’t we ban schools altogether beacuse you could have inadvertenly carreid peanuts on your shoes (or some other part of your being) to school. Remember mold? Big epidemic? Went away no hostile mold pandemic. We are making ourselves as a species weaker by allowing the weak and illequiped to survive. Animals that don’t learn the lesson die off and the strong survive allowing a better offspring. We forget this and allow ourself to weaken by having the mentality that we are not animals and the same rules dont apply to us. Deal with it and don’t tell me my kid cant eat a peanut butter sandwhich.

by: CRYSTAL

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:18:03 +0000

Look at all these selfish idiots, I just found out after 7 yrs my son has developed a severe reaction to peanuts. He also ate it as a young child . Is it too much to ask they ban it in schools? I dont think so ! You would want it banned too, if it were your child!
Besides its not just the peanut itself that most are allergic to . Just being in the air can create a severe reaction in lots of cases. So don’t patronize something you dont understand!