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[quote=Anonymous]13:05 here. My child has contact reactions, too. However, contact reactions are very, very unlikely to be life-threatening.

It is important to weigh relative risks and still teach your child to live life as fully as possible. We are very cautious about my child's food allergies, but sometimes we need to take calculated risks. For example, the risks that:

1. on an airplane that does not serve peanuts, another passenger has brought nuts. 
2. That passenger touches some part of the plane that the allergic child also touches.
3. The indirect touch transfers enough protein to cause a reaction. 
4. The reaction is severe enough to be life-threatening. 
5. The epinephrine (which you will always carry) is ineffective.

I think the combination of these risks all materializing is statistically very low. They need to be compared with the risks of e.g., never meeting certain relatives, never experiencing another country, being taught to fear the world.

Keep in mind that there are risks in driving to the allergist's office, too. No one gets to live in a bubble, or should. I am the first to admit that food allergies significantly change how we live our lives, and there are entire counties my daughter will probably never visit (Thailand, China). We live very cautiously. But there is a difference between caution and paranoia. [/quote]

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