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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am over other people’s allergies.  Schools can separate kids that have extreme allergies to their own table/room. [/quote]
Such empathy. You must live such a blessed life, one that never inconveniences others. So lucky![/quote]

Honest question- if a child has severe allergies where he can’t be anywhere near someone eating or having recently eaten the allergen, what is your solution? If not separating him from anyone else who is eating, and teaching him vigilance? I don’t think that’s lacking empathy I think it’s realistic. It’s actually teaching him what he needs to do to survive- never be near anyone else who is eating. If that’s the level of allergy you claim your child to have- trace amounts being lethal if he touches a contaminated surface- then you need to teach him absolute vigilance and absolutely teach him that other people eating are not safe for him to be near. Period!

If his allergy is way less severe than that, then just not eating other people’s food should suffice in which case all of these food bans and allergy tables and school wide handwashing after lunch policies should be unnecessary. [/quote]

You
 Are something. 👎

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Hah! I’m a mom with one child with an anaphylactic egg allergy and one child who is such a picky eater he doesn’t gain weight. But he likes eggs. So we don’t even keep our house egg free. I teach my egg allergy kid that it’s not safe to eat next to my picky eater kid when he’s eating eggs because my picky eater just makes such a mess when he eats. At school, he just doesn’t share food. Because it’s not something where he will need his EpiPen if he is just at the same table with a kid eating egg salad. If it was- then I’d tell the school he needed to eat in a separate area for lunch or I’d pick him up for lunch. Because he needs to learn that his allergy is his responsibility![/quote]

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