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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When my kids were playground age I never let them have nut butters on a playground. It just seems a common courtesy. They can have it at home plenty; they don't "need" it for a snack outside. I'm sorry your kid has such severe allergies, it must be terrifying :([/quote]

Why stop at ON the playground? If the nut allergy is so deadly that whatever is eaten at home can find it's way to the park, then OP really needs a complete ban on these foods. Because the magical thinking that the park equipment is clean as long as nobody is currently eating peanut products while ON the equipment is bizarre and nonsensical and sounds dangerous to kids like OPs child. Why risk the park at all?
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This is so moronic. I don't get why you PPs are so triggered. Someone's kid could die. She's asking for courtesy and awareness. You lose your mind bc someone asked you to be considerate. You create an outlandish hypothetical about banning peanuts. Other PPs bemoan the loss of FREEDOM. It's a MF nut. It's not the end all be all. No one is asking for a ban, just awareness of the other kids who could die from it.

Though given how hard it was to get folks to mask during COVID when millions died, I understand that asking for courtesy for children with allergies is next to impossible

I'm just in constant awe and what total self absorbed jerks Americans are. We're really freaking terrible to each other. [/quote]

Says the people gambling with their kids life to go to a park. [/quote]

children with allergies deserve to go outdoors and try to lead a healthy, active life. The fact that they bother you so much that you want them removed from society says so much about you.

You are not a good person. I mean, who is that awful to small children??[/quote]

You're either massively overstating the risk of death to your kid or you're an unserious parent who doesn't take the allergy seriously. Pick one. Because continuing to take the chance makes you a pretty shitty parent.[/quote]

My child has a life-threatening egg allergy, and egg is in TONS of things you’d never expect.  Should I just never allow her to venture outside our front door?  We carry safe food, wet wipes, Zyrtec, and her EpiPens EVERYWHERE, at all times.  According to this thread, either I’m a bad parent for keeping her in a bubble and making her develop allergies, or I’m a bad parent for taking her out of the house, or I’m a bad parent who overstates the seriousness of reactions (2 ER trips, a referral to a pediatric allergist, multiple rounds of testing and food challenges, and associated bills seem to refute that but whatever).
One in 9 children have a food allergy.  What may be a “mild” allergy can turn anaphylactic upon another exposure.  People tend to view peanut allergy as the most severe (clearly OP is one of those) but, actually, dairy has resulted in more deaths from anaphylaxis in recent years.  [/quote]

I get all that. But are you asking, as OP Is asking, that other parents refrain from giving their kids food with egg in it (something you know better than anyone is incredibly hard) in public places, and expect people to decontaminate their kids to a safe level for interaction with your kid, on the off chance that their kid interacts with your kid, or uses the same playground equipment.

I don't think OP Is overstating the allergy. I am confused as to why, if your child had an allergy like this, you'd think a viable path to safety would be exception all other parents to take an extreme level of caution with an allergen that doesn't impact their kid.

It's just not realistic and won't happen. The answer is to do what you are doing. It sucks, but it's really the only way. You will never be able to trust other people to make the world safe for your kid.[/quote]

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