Please don’t let your children eat common allergens while playing on public playground equipment

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is a death sentence for my NK. There is already so much she has to miss out on in life due to a severe anaphylactic allergy to peanuts.

I’m not saying your kid can’t go to the park and eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for a picnic. Wash their hands, etc. But having your kid run around on the equipment with a bag of Bamba’s leaving peanut oil residue on every surface means we can no longer play.

And I do understand we live in a “I, me and mine” society where it’s ok if not encouraged to get yours and do what you want because how your actions effect others isn’t your problem. I understand. I’m sad, that’s not how I’m raising my kids but I get that’s a key American value especially in dog eat dog D.C. but can we just try to have a little concern for others?

You’re the one who doesn’t care that some kids are severely sensitive eaters and that peanut foods might be all they’ll eat.

Does being a sensitive eater also prevent a kid from eating in their stroller or sitting on a park bench?

They can sit wherever they want.

I think there is a psychosomatic element to all these “allergies.”

If a child is capable of sitting down to eat, then why do you let them run around on the playground with food?

What’s the difference? You’re going to see people walking down the sidewalk downtown while eating a kind bar. What are you going to do about it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wait until your child gets to elementary school, high school, college and the work world. Are you going to tell your child’s roommates they can’t eat almonds?

Yes , no allergens as it's an ada

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Anonymous wrote:This is a death sentence for my NK. There is already so much she has to miss out on in life due to a severe anaphylactic allergy to peanuts.

I’m not saying your kid can’t go to the park and eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for a picnic. Wash their hands, etc. But having your kid run around on the equipment with a bag of Bamba’s leaving peanut oil residue on every surface means we can no longer play.

And I do understand we live in a “I, me and mine” society where it’s ok if not encouraged to get yours and do what you want because how your actions effect others isn’t your problem. I understand. I’m sad, that’s not how I’m raising my kids but I get that’s a key American value especially in dog eat dog D.C. but can we just try to have a little concern for others?

You’re the one who doesn’t care that some kids are severely sensitive eaters and that peanut foods might be all they’ll eat.

Does being a sensitive eater also prevent a kid from eating in their stroller or sitting on a park bench?

They can sit wherever they want.

I think there is a psychosomatic element to all these “allergies.”

If a child is capable of sitting down to eat, then why do you let them run around on the playground with food?

What’s the difference? You’re going to see people walking down the sidewalk downtown while eating a kind bar. What are you going to do about it?

Lawsuit for negligence

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why only what you deem “common” allergies. My friend’s child has a severe corn allergy, does he not deserve as much consideration as your child, OP?

Nope, only op's child matters. That has been established.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a death sentence for my NK. There is already so much she has to miss out on in life due to a severe anaphylactic allergy to peanuts.

I’m not saying your kid can’t go to the park and eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for a picnic. Wash their hands, etc. But having your kid run around on the equipment with a bag of Bamba’s leaving peanut oil residue on every surface means we can no longer play.

And I do understand we live in a “I, me and mine” society where it’s ok if not encouraged to get yours and do what you want because how your actions effect others isn’t your problem. I understand. I’m sad, that’s not how I’m raising my kids but I get that’s a key American value especially in dog eat dog D.C. but can we just try to have a little concern for others?

You’re the one who doesn’t care that some kids are severely sensitive eaters and that peanut foods might be all they’ll eat.

Does being a sensitive eater also prevent a kid from eating in their stroller or sitting on a park bench?

They can sit wherever they want.

I think there is a psychosomatic element to all these “allergies.”

If a child is capable of sitting down to eat, then why do you let them run around on the playground with food?

What’s the difference? You’re going to see people walking down the sidewalk downtown while eating a kind bar. What are you going to do about it?

Lawsuit for negligence

Lol good luck with that. They might throw the bar at you

[Anonymous]

Did you politely ask the parent if she could put it away as your child has an allergy? I think most parents would try to help op. If you can only be passive aggressive online about it that doesn’t fix much.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a death sentence for my NK. There is already so much she has to miss out on in life due to a severe anaphylactic allergy to peanuts.

I’m not saying your kid can’t go to the park and eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for a picnic. Wash their hands, etc. But having your kid run around on the equipment with a bag of Bamba’s leaving peanut oil residue on every surface means we can no longer play.

And I do understand we live in a “I, me and mine” society where it’s ok if not encouraged to get yours and do what you want because how your actions effect others isn’t your problem. I understand. I’m sad, that’s not how I’m raising my kids but I get that’s a key American value especially in dog eat dog D.C. but can we just try to have a little concern for others?

You’re the one who doesn’t care that some kids are severely sensitive eaters and that peanut foods might be all they’ll eat.

Does being a sensitive eater also prevent a kid from eating in their stroller or sitting on a park bench?

They can sit wherever they want.

I think there is a psychosomatic element to all these “allergies.”

If a child is capable of sitting down to eat, then why do you let them run around on the playground with food?

What’s the difference? You’re going to see people walking down the sidewalk downtown while eating a kind bar. What are you going to do about it?

Lawsuit for negligence

DP. LOL, I doubt you could name the elements of a negligence cause of action.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a death sentence for my NK. There is already so much she has to miss out on in life due to a severe anaphylactic allergy to peanuts.

I’m not saying your kid can’t go to the park and eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for a picnic. Wash their hands, etc. But having your kid run around on the equipment with a bag of Bamba’s leaving peanut oil residue on every surface means we can no longer play.

And I do understand we live in a “I, me and mine” society where it’s ok if not encouraged to get yours and do what you want because how your actions effect others isn’t your problem. I understand. I’m sad, that’s not how I’m raising my kids but I get that’s a key American value especially in dog eat dog D.C. but can we just try to have a little concern for others?

How considerate of you.

[Anonymous]

OP, I'm sorry for all the silly and unkind comments you're getting here. Life-threatening allergies to common foods are really scary -- and even more terrifying when they're your kid's.

I am sure you have already looked into this, but just in case -- there are an ever-increasing number of practices offering oral immunotherapy. This can work, even for severely allergic children! It can make a deadly allergy into one that is annoying but not life-threatening. And when it does work like that, my god it is miraculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, I'm sorry for all the silly and unkind comments you're getting here. Life-threatening allergies to common foods are really scary -- and even more terrifying when they're your kid's.

I am sure you have already looked into this, but just in case -- there are an ever-increasing number of practices offering oral immunotherapy. This can work, even for severely allergic children! It can make a deadly allergy into one that is annoying but not life-threatening. And when it does work like that, my god it is miraculous.

I should've deleted "oral" -- there are various kinds of effective immunotherapy, some involve injections instead of ingestion. Again, I'm sure you've looked into this, but in case you hesitated because it seems like madness to deliberately give your kid something they're allergic to, I assure you, it can and does work and when it does, it is ABSOLUTELY worth every moment of anxiety or discomfort surrounding it.

[Anonymous]

It’s such a small and easy thing to not eat common allergens in shared spaces. The “don’t tell me what to eat” people sound like entitled 4 year old brats. Do you think OP *likes* having to think about what everyone around her kid is eating?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP. You have to learn to be ruthless. As you can see, these people don’t care about your kid. They don’t care or she lives or dies. They only care about their child and their comfort.

So what do I do? Grab the snack and throw it out. I don’t care if I make an enemy out of every parent and nanny in the park. You will have to learn to aggressively put your child first because everyone around them won’t ever.

Let them be angry. My child’s right to life is more important than your kids snack.

I’m going to call bullshit on this. I don’t believe for a moment that you walk up to random kids on the playground, grab their snacks and throw them away.

Of course they don’t. They just play a tough gal on the internet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s such a small and easy thing to not eat common allergens in shared spaces. The “don’t tell me what to eat” people sound like entitled 4 year old brats. Do you think OP *likes* having to think about what everyone around her kid is eating?

I think she certainly contributed to the allergy (which are usually not as severe as people think they are) in some way due to oversterilization.

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Interesting that OP comments on the "I, me, and mine" society, without the self-awareness to see how she wants EVERYONE ELSE to change their behavior for her child. While I agree that running around with peanut-laden food on a toddler playground isn't ideal, you have NO IDEA what anyone ate or had on their hands while using the equipment before you even got to the playground. It's genuinely crazy to expect a common child's food to be outlawed and to go around grabbing food from kids. Isn't this why you carry an epi-pen? Because you can't control every circumstance?

[Anonymous]

PS for anyone who's interested in the oral immunotherapy for peanuts, here's more info. Takeaway: for those with a non-life-threatening peanut allergy it's not advised, but for people like OP's child, who could die merely from touching playground equipment, it literally could be life-saving.

https://jim.bmj.com/content/jim/68/6/1152.full.pdf