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[quote=Anonymous]As a mom of a highly allergic kid who has been to the ER multiple times for severe allergic reactions, I think your sister needs counseling to deal with her anxiety and controlling tendencies.  Your nephew isn’t going to have an allergic reaction from your kids’ ice cream (unless they share).  Milk allergies, unlike nut and shellfish, are rarely life-threatening so it was extreme for her to freak out about someone eating a cheeseburger.  Allergens can’t jump out of containers, so there was no risk of your food being in the pantry.

My nephew also has allergies and my sister is a little (not to the extreme) like yours.  When they go to restaurants, she will tell the waiter, “My son is deathly allergic to shellfish.  He could die if he gets cross contamination.”  She’ll repeat multiple times to make sure they get the point.  My poor nephew suffers horrible anxiety and I can’t help but wonder if hearing about how he could die every time they eat out contributes.

Your sister can’t control everything and has to teach your nephew to live safely in a world with allergens.  That means he needs to know and understand that he cannot get ice cream from the ice cream parlor.  However, other kids can and do.  He needs to know how to administer his own epi-pen and call 911 if he accident ingests something.  What she’s doing isn’t teaching him anything other than to be overly anxious and scared.  Poor kid!

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