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[quote=Anonymous]My child had a peanut allergy as a baby- his blood test levels were through the roof- but he did not react in vivo because he had eaten peanut butter constantly since 6 months old, which was very lucky for us, it wasnt on purpose he just loved peanut butter.  His allergist said he MUST eat peanut product DAILY until at least age 5 or 6, as a way to avoid developing a serious peanut allergy.  Mind you this was about a decade ago so maybe thinking has changed, but, this was what happened.

He went to a peanut free preschool, so I gave him a PB sandwich for dinner every night, but if we had other dinner plans, i would make sure to give him  those peanut butter pretzels, or PB crackers, or trail mix with peanuts, as his afternoon snack.  And sometimes we were at the playground, or on a public bench, or at a communal eating area in a museum.  And, I get it.  I do.  But like you have to worry about your child, I have to worry about mine, and I was going to do what the allergist told me to do and sometimes that meant my kid ate peanuts in public, in a communal setting.  If soemone had asked me to put it away, I would have.  But I was not going to preemptively not feed him what his allergist had told me to feed him, because we happened to be eating that meal or snack out of the house.  I'm sorry, I am.  But I agree with other posters that if the allergy is so severe that breathing in particles from my kids snack nearby, or touching residue, is enough to send your child into anaphylactic shock then that is a truly severe life threatening situation and you need to mitigate that yourself, any way possible, including letting everyone know as soon as you show up in a room and bringing soap and water to wash things down, including his hands, very frequently. And possibly masking. [/quote]

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