I’m the 21:19 poster above— had never heard of TIP therapy before but xolair assisted OIT was a game changer, and we started at 12 months. Still carry an epi pen (both kids tolerised, plus husband has bee allergy tho he gets bee shots) and keep allergy plan at the kids’ schools, but it is an amazing relief.

Someday my kid will grow up to be a teenager who thinks she is invincible, and knowing something like not realizing cashew was in q dish she took a bite of won’t kill her is huge.

As an allergy mom, I don't think other kids should have to restrict their diet to accommodate my kids' allergies. That's not real world and the kids have to learn to navigate life where people around them are eating their allergens.

Further, restricting diet increases the chance for that other kid to develop a food allergy.

Final thought - allergy families should seriously consider treatment, ESPECIALLY if the allergy is so severe that being in contact with someone else who has eaten it is risky. Allergy treatment can begin at a very early age. Options include OIT and TIP. Xolair is an adjunctive option as well.

OIT is available locally at many allergists' offices. TIP is available only in CA right now, but will be available on the east coast in mid-2026 (likely NJ).

TIP is through the Food Allergy Institute of Southern California (they have a SF locale as well). Many patients travel from the east coast to the SoCal clinic for this treatment.
www.foodallergyinstitute.com

Good luck!

Anonymous wrote:Pumpkin seed is also an option. But OP your school can't just be top 9 plus free. That's irresponsible because most people don't know how to read labels properly and may contain is voluntary.

Signed mom with a kid who has peanut and egg allergies that cause circulatory shock and collapse from anaphylaxis.

I appreciate this coming from another mom of highly allergic children. I never trusted that everyone would read or remember about allergens, so always had to act as though my daughter might be exposed based on what a neighboring kid ate.

We did xolair assisted OIT and fingers crossed she now tolerates her allergens, xolair free. If I had a kid w multiple allergens that led to circulatory collapse or respiratory failure, I would seriously consider xolair as a safety net, whether you can do OIT or not.

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Anonymous wrote:I am over other people’s allergies. Schools can separate kids that have extreme allergies to their own table/room.

Such empathy. You must live such a blessed life, one that never inconveniences others. So lucky!

Honest question- if a child has severe allergies where he can’t be anywhere near someone eating or having recently eaten the allergen, what is your solution? If not separating him from anyone else who is eating, and teaching him vigilance? I don’t think that’s lacking empathy I think it’s realistic. It’s actually teaching him what he needs to do to survive- never be near anyone else who is eating. If that’s the level of allergy you claim your child to have- trace amounts being lethal if he touches a contaminated surface- then you need to teach him absolute vigilance and absolutely teach him that other people eating are not safe for him to be near. Period!

If his allergy is way less severe than that, then just not eating other people’s food should suffice in which case all of these food bans and allergy tables and school wide handwashing after lunch policies should be unnecessary.

You
Are something. 👎

Hah! I’m a mom with one child with an anaphylactic egg allergy and one child who is such a picky eater he doesn’t gain weight. But he likes eggs. So we don’t even keep our house egg free. I teach my egg allergy kid that it’s not safe to eat next to my picky eater kid when he’s eating eggs because my picky eater just makes such a mess when he eats. At school, he just doesn’t share food. Because it’s not something where he will need his EpiPen if he is just at the same table with a kid eating egg salad. If it was- then I’d tell the school he needed to eat in a separate area for lunch or I’d pick him up for lunch. Because he needs to learn that his allergy is his responsibility!

I'm going to assume you're really entrenched in your views and that's fine and I'm glad that it works for your family but that doesn't mean that your situation is representative of not only the evidence-based interventions that experts have posted for schools to follow but also all kids with allergies. For example were you aware that eggs aerosol and some kids react to the aerosol of eggs which is why we were told by our allergist who is the head of a children's hospital to have direct ventilation if we were going to have eggs in the house.
Contact reactive is not the only thing we are talking about here. And the fact that it's only contact reactive or big lobs of peanut butter ingesting in a Reese's and there's the only examples anybody on this f****** form can come up with tells me how much I'm wasting my freaking time.

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Anonymous wrote:I am over other people’s allergies. Schools can separate kids that have extreme allergies to their own table/room.

I agree. I have allergies and as far back as I can remember my mother drilled me about what I should not eat and if I was not sure about a food then simply do not eat.

+1, there were kids with allergies in my friend group growing up and it wasn't the big drama it is now. If they went to other kids' houses they would bring their own food, and wouldn't eat anything that they didn't know for sure was safe. It was no big deal.

Also when I was a kid there were way fewer situations where parents sent food into school for everyone. I don't recall having classroom parties for birthdays.

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Anonymous wrote:I am over other people’s allergies. Schools can separate kids that have extreme allergies to their own table/room.

Such empathy. You must live such a blessed life, one that never inconveniences others. So lucky!

Honest question- if a child has severe allergies where he can’t be anywhere near someone eating or having recently eaten the allergen, what is your solution? If not separating him from anyone else who is eating, and teaching him vigilance? I don’t think that’s lacking empathy I think it’s realistic. It’s actually teaching him what he needs to do to survive- never be near anyone else who is eating. If that’s the level of allergy you claim your child to have- trace amounts being lethal if he touches a contaminated surface- then you need to teach him absolute vigilance and absolutely teach him that other people eating are not safe for him to be near. Period!

If his allergy is way less severe than that, then just not eating other people’s food should suffice in which case all of these food bans and allergy tables and school wide handwashing after lunch policies should be unnecessary.

You
Are something. 👎

Hah! I’m a mom with one child with an anaphylactic egg allergy and one child who is such a picky eater he doesn’t gain weight. But he likes eggs. So we don’t even keep our house egg free. I teach my egg allergy kid that it’s not safe to eat next to my picky eater kid when he’s eating eggs because my picky eater just makes such a mess when he eats. At school, he just doesn’t share food. Because it’s not something where he will need his EpiPen if he is just at the same table with a kid eating egg salad. If it was- then I’d tell the school he needed to eat in a separate area for lunch or I’d pick him up for lunch. Because he needs to learn that his allergy is his responsibility!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am over other people’s allergies. Schools can separate kids that have extreme allergies to their own table/room.

Such empathy. You must live such a blessed life, one that never inconveniences others. So lucky!

Honest question- if a child has severe allergies where he can’t be anywhere near someone eating or having recently eaten the allergen, what is your solution? If not separating him from anyone else who is eating, and teaching him vigilance? I don’t think that’s lacking empathy I think it’s realistic. It’s actually teaching him what he needs to do to survive- never be near anyone else who is eating. If that’s the level of allergy you claim your child to have- trace amounts being lethal if he touches a contaminated surface- then you need to teach him absolute vigilance and absolutely teach him that other people eating are not safe for him to be near. Period!

If his allergy is way less severe than that, then just not eating other people’s food should suffice in which case all of these food bans and allergy tables and school wide handwashing after lunch policies should be unnecessary.

You
Are something. 👎

Anonymous wrote:I am over other people’s allergies. Schools can separate kids that have extreme allergies to their own table/room.

I agree. I have allergies and as far back as I can remember my mother drilled me about what I should not eat and if I was not sure about a food then simply do not eat.