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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, you want people to thoroughly wash their hands after they eat a Snickers bar at a park with a playground? [/quote]

Ideally, yes. People should wash hands before and after eating. In a lurch, where there is no sink or soap available, commercial wipes are sufficient to remove most proteins. [url]https://www.foodallergy.org/resources/cleaning-methods[/url] Hand sanitizer with water doesnt work as well. [/quote]

My kids use hand sanitizing wipes to clean their hands before they eat a snack outdoors, but I don't expect them to wipe after they eat because they get their hands dirty in other ways. (If they ate in a messy way, that's another story.) I certainly wouldn't expect them to wash their hands if they ate something out of a wrapper.

I won't pretend that I know anything about being an allergy mom, and I'm sorry that this is the hand you were dealt. I do have an autistic child though, and I realize that the world doesn't revolve around him, and I can reasonably expect certain accommodations, but it's on him and me to manage his needs. I think it's similar in your case. It's unreasonable for you to expect people to wash hands after having a snack at an outdoors venue. It's on you to find an alternative if your kid cannot handle a trace amount of an allergen.[/quote]

Autism doesn’t run the risk of spontaneous death caused by going to lunch.[/quote]

If you're worried about spontaneous death at the school cafeteria or playground, you absolutely should not be sending your kid to school. This is not about morals or empathy, as you're trying to make it to be. You cannot expect 100% compliance from 100% of the people 100% of the time.  That is actually insane. Is it fair to you or your kid? No, but unfortunately life is not fair.[/quote]

OR you could just not pack peanuts for lunch and then my child could be a part of society. You prefer to treat people like lepers as a “solution”. Seems like you just don’t want to be bothered. [/quote]

Ok but now you're making it sound like it's just peanuts, because of just your kid and kids like him.  But it's not.  As other posters have pointed out, milk allergies are similarly prevalent and with similar severity.  So now are we banning milk at school?  No more milk cartons with school lunch?  No more cheese on anyone's sandwiches? Shellfish and eggs might be easier to avoid in schools, but what about wheat? Soy?  Or do you just care about peanuts?  [/quote]

90% of milk allergies are outgrown by age 3. Not that common in school.[/quote]

But pretty common in preschool and daycare! Yet there are no bans on milk based infant formula, milk, yogurt, cheese [/quote]

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