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[quote=Anonymous][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]

I'm going to assume you're really entrenched in your views and that's fine and I'm glad that it works for your family but that doesn't mean that your situation is representative of not only the evidence-based interventions that experts have posted for schools to follow but also all kids with allergies.  For example were you aware that eggs aerosol and some kids react to the aerosol of eggs which is why we were told by our allergist who is the head of a children's hospital to have direct ventilation if we were going to have eggs in the house. 
Contact reactive is not the only thing we are talking about here. And the fact that it's only contact reactive or big lobs of peanut butter ingesting in a Reese's and there's the only examples anybody on this f****** form can come up with tells me how much I'm wasting my freaking time. [/quote]

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