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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]- 2 kids
- Clean diet during pregnancy, virtually all organic and included nuts
- Fed organic foods until age 5; diet still mostly organic
- Few processed foods
- No screens (at all) until after age 2
- Pets in the house since birth, which is supposed to be protective.
- SAHP who provided lots of outdoor time when they were little, including playing in nature and digging in the dirt.
- Minimal antibiotics or other medications
- [b]Fed peanuts and nuts once it was recommended (age 3).[/b]

Both kids have food allergies.  One ate nuts and peanuts until age 7, when she had sudden anaphylaxis and almost died.  She now has severe anaphylactic allergies to peanuts and tree nuts, as well as suspected celiac (we went gluten free before doing the testing).  The other has multiple, less severe food allergies.

Tell me, what did we do wrong?  How is this the parents' fault?[/quote]

And that especially for peanut and tree nut allergies, it is likely better for kids to be exposed young, and for even those kids who experience an allergic reaction to be treated with exposure to peanuts and tree nuts (starting in small controlled doses and building up) rather than in trying to create a peanut free cocoon.[/quote]

I think it's really important to note that once anaphylactic allergies are identified the "starting in small controlled doses and building up" needs to happen in carefully supervised medical conditions, and that until the treatment, which takes more than a year in a best case scenario with a kid with 1 allergen and no complications, and no waiting list for the first appointment, the kids lives outside of those medical interventions need to continue to be peanut free.

On the other thread, there are a lot of people who seem to taking the fact that OIT exists (which is wonderful) and twisting it around to say that parents who try to protect their kids from exposure are either bad parents because they should have just done the treatment already (even though, the treatment can take years, so young kids can be getting the treatment and also still need to be protected) or that since small exposures are the cure they should let their kid have small exposures on the playground (not how it works).  That's a really dangerous way of thinking.  [/quote]

Eh, actually there was a poster on the other thread who was explaining that what OP was asking of her was specifically hard because she was doing OIT with her kid for allergies and asking her to never bring an allergen to the playground would make it hard to follow the OIT recommendations (once you are beyond the phase of only doing controlled exposures with the doctor and start building up tolerance at home through frequent exposure).

I mean, yes, there are people on the other thread who are claiming the OP is to blame for her kid's allergies and those posters are terrible. But the conversation about OIT is more nuanced and since everything is framed within OP's original request, which included never brining any common allergen to the playground (which would be hugely burdensome for many parents, including the parents of kids with allergies), it's all being framed in extreme ways. The issue in the other thread is not that people don't care about the OP's kid, but that the OP is asking other parents to do something that just is not feasible or realistic, and therefore probably isn't the right solution for OP's problem.[/quote]

The OP in that thread asked that people not let their kids bring the food on the actual playground equipment.  There is nothing in an OIP protocol requires that a kid eat peanuts so frequently that they can't put down their sandwich on the bench and run around and play without it.  That's not  hugely burdensome, unless you have a kid on a feeding tube with a continuous feed.

Other people went off on how they OP probably wanted people to never eat peanuts outside of their home, but the OP was pretty clear in differentiating between eating on a bench, that OP could wipe off before her kid sat there, and on the playground equipment itself.  
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