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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our very small school implemented frequent, regular handwashing for younger grades. There is a child in one of the classes with many severe allergies. They wash hands before and after snack and lunch. No foods are banned at the school. [/quote]

Yes there are different levels of implementation
1. Unless you want to pay parents with kids with allergies to stay to homeschool then they will be incorporated into public school. Handwashing and cleaning surfaces are the evidence-based practice. Not separate tables. Please recognize that Sally with an egg allergy eating a PBJ next to Tim with a peanut allergy eating an egg salad sandwich is literally no different than Sally seating next to Joe in her class with one seat between them or Tim sitting next to Carol, his classmate. Kids with allergies dont need to be excluded or sit separately from their classmates highlighting their differences. It also sets the tone that the general community does not need to absorb

2. Playgrounds are quite literally for younger children. Im not worried about an 8 year old not being able to mitigate risk. Its the 3 year old. Im also not expecting complete compliance but I do pose to all of you "I wont do that" posters. If you would wipe their hands before getting into your precious car (I have a feeling the no car eating, wont wipe their kids hands at a playground diagram has some serious overlap) or before touching your face or before your go into Mimi's house with all of its collectibles you can take the extra step of wiping their hands before returning to the playground. Many of you have admitted you wash their hands or wipe prior to eating and the reasoning for that, I assume, is to mitigate the risk of microscopic dirt or viruses/bacteria making your child ill. Ill add the example of cheetos fingers. That is on the extreme end of food residue. Peanut butter isnt much off of that. Nutella. Anything sticky or powdered. If you would remove cheetos dust, just imagine its cheetos dust.  :lol:

3. Everyone seems to think that exposure and reaction is a cut and dry response. It's not. The derisiveness about contact reaction is unnecessary. There is a concept in the allergy world called the "allergy bucket". The IgE response is basically histamine overload which is why for mild reactions (one system) the treatment is antihistamines. But histamines are also produced by immune cells when you are sick or your body has/is mounting an immune response to a viral or bacterial antigen, they are increased when you are hot or when you exercise. As an aside, this is why with OIT you are on activity restriction because increased activity can flood histamines and trigger a reaction. Even if a kid has only previously reacted to known ingestion, say 1gram during a food challenge, that doesn't mean that in future physiological states they won't react to less than 1g because its summer or they were running around with friends etc. The kids who are contact reactive are rare and their parents dont take them places, I promise you they dont. I'm in the groups. They only host at their house, they dont travel, they dont dine out, they dont go to playgrounds when other kids are playing and their parents wipe the entire structure beforehand.

Allergy parents know how to navigate the world. Your comments about Target or the mall or a plane are extraneous. Those are mixed age communal spaces. Allergy parents are literally just saying at a playground which is designed for CHILDREN and in school, extra precaution would be nice. Kids in school get their 504 so legally they are covered (thankfully).  [/quote]

You can get schools to implement some of this.

You will NEVER get 100% compliance from other people in public spaces like playgrounds. People aren't thinking about your kid every time they leave the house. They are thinking of themselves. Just like you are thinking of yourself. I will give your kid about the same deference and protection as you intend to give my kid, a child you know nothing about. How much is that? What are you willing to do to help and protect my kid? Only ask others for the same amount.[/quote]

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