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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]2 of my kids have severe allergies to peanuts, tree nuts, and sunflower seeds. Sucks. But my third has zero allergies. He gets to eat these things even at home.  BUT I get why schools don’t want that liability esp if your sunflower or peanut kid doesn’t wash their hands or clean their face after eating. Can a teacher monitor everyone that closely or tell when a kid is going into early stage anaphylaxis? is bringing this really worth another kid dying? FFS [/quote]

I agree with you but this is why we should really be looking at why allergies are proliferating and more aggressively pursuing methods of decreasing the incidence of allergies or decreasing their severity, like the exposure therapies many allergists are now recommending.

We should also consider asking if food bans may have inadvertently increased the incidence of allergies, or made existing allergies worse, by decreasing the frequency with which kids come into incidental physical contact with allergens. Like before we freak out about the odds that a public playground might have allergens on its surfaces (odds that are probably extremely high -- it's a public playground!) we might want to consider that traditionally allergens were everywhere, all the time, and that attempting to control them may actually have made more kids develop the kinds of severe allergies we are talking about now.

Like what if the reason so many more kids have scary allergies now is because a generation or two ago, those kids would have been frequently encountering tree nut particles, milk or egg particles, etc., at school and on playgrounds and at friends houses. And now it's very common for schools, daycares, and parents of young kids to avoid foods that contain any of those allergens at all. Is this approach actually making things worse? Maybe let's figure that out before we start screaming at people on playgrounds to hose down their kid after their lunch.[/quote]

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