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[quote=Anonymous]Wow what a thread. I am NP and another mom of a child with ARFID who eats a lot of nut butters and nut fortified products. I am happy to take this post as a reminder to make sure my kids wipe their hands after eating at a park/playground. My oldest was in a class years ago with a child with a severe nut allergy and we didn’t let our DC eat peanut butter before school because I just didn’t trust them to not get it on their clothes. But in the absence of a known allergy sometimes we don’t always have these things at the forefront of our brain. It’s a hard balance and we do need to eat at the park sometimes (sibling has multiple games on the attached soccer field, schedule changed and kids are hungry. I honestly don’t see kids walking around with snacks on the playground aside from little toddlers with cups of milk, so it’s hard to really picture what you are talking about. Mine might come and sit down and go back to playing with out cleaning their hands but I can work on that.

When the friend with a nut allergy also was allergic to eggs so when he came to my DC birthday party, I did want to get my kid their favorite dessert (they would not enjoy most treats) but offered a egg free alternative for the other child. The mom said she would rather bring him her own dessert that she knew was safe and tasted ok. I fully respect that and to be honest was thinking about her when I was reading this thread. It’s probably so frustrating to see people doing things that feel dangerous to your child. I can totally understand that but many of us are thinking about other things every day and we aren’t able to consider every allergy every moment even if we can try to do a bit better. BUT I have to imagine you know at the end of the day you are going to have to be vigilant and for that you have my sympathy. [/quote]

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