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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My nephew was visiting and a neighborhood kid gave him some chocolate with nuts. He has a severe allergy, six years old, and parents didnt have EpiPen with them.  He went to hospital and had to be sent to a children’s hospital.

Just a little caused a major reaction, it was scary.  [/quote]

So many issues here.  A 6 year old with a life threatening allergy is waaaay old enough to not accept food without checking with a parent.  And a parent of a 6 year who has a life threatening allergy to something so common, being out and about without their epipen, is breathtakingly neglectful. [/quote]

Honestly, not having the epi pen handy is the least absurd part of the story here. It doesn't make any sense. It is impossible to imagine this happening because (1) I don't know any people who would offer a total stranger's child, who they just met, anything with tree nuts in it, and (2) I don't any kids in K or older who won't say, the second someone offers them food, "ok I have a nut allergy does this have nuts in it actually can you talk to my mom I'm not supposed to eat food from new people at all until my mom talks to them thanks."[/quote]

I actually give more of a pass to the kids- a kid without allergies isn't going to think twice about offering some chocolate bar to a kid he just met that he's playing with.  The kid WITH the apparently life threatening allergy is obviously old enough to say he has to check with his parent before taking it, but, kids make mistakes.  The only person who is unforgiveable here is the parent who just flat out didn't bring the epipen with them.  Can you imagine the parent of a diabetic bringing the kid out for the day and just not bringing any insulin or any fast carbs, because they were like meh it will probably be fine. [/quote]

The parent also let their kid play with a total stranger and was not supervising well enough to intervene if food was changing hands. Which, if your child has a life-threatening allergy to a very common food item, you would do! I've said "sorry no shared food! she has allergies!" like 7 billion times at playgrounds, which is part of how you train your kid to speak up about their allergies too.[/quote]

I noticed that too.  How did this kid manage to take food from a stranger and eat it without their parent noticing, if eating certain foods will kill their child?  I mean, I guess that's the type of parent who also doesn't bring their child's epipen with them.  Here is a PSA to all allergy parents out there: giving the epipen IMMEDIATELY leads to astoundingly better outcomes than driving your kid to the ER, parking, registering, and then telling the triage nurse "my kid ate peanuts about 60 minutes ago and his symptoms keep worsening".  Like that will actually be the difference between life and death for some kids.  So, if your child has a severe anaphylactic allergy, and you actually do forget the epipen for some ungodly reason, and your child actually does manage to eat food from a stranger without you intervening, what you need to do is call 911 to get him the epinepherine as soon as humanely possible. [/quote]

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