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Posted on 9/4/14 at 6:13 pm to 3nOut
You can't restrict society, and school is basically a true microcosm of society.
If a single peanut particle gets near you and you may die, I think you ought to stay home.
I wouldn't send my kid to school with it, even with restrictions to the diet.
If a single peanut particle gets near you and you may die, I think you ought to stay home.
I wouldn't send my kid to school with it, even with restrictions to the diet.
Posted on 9/4/14 at 8:23 pm to The Spleen
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I'd like to know why there has been such an increase in the number of kids with peanut allergies. I don't remember a single kid having it when I was growing up.
This.
I think it is lees the peanuts but probably the pesticides or processing ingredients that actually cause the allergy, but the beloved peanut gets the blame.
Posted on 9/4/14 at 8:29 pm to Cheese Grits
I do wonder about some of the parents that really delay what their kids eat. Numerous friends who didn't let their kids have sweets or peanut butter their first or second years have a lot more allergies and sickness with their kids than we did. But I let them eat crap off the floor from an early age.
Posted on 9/4/14 at 8:32 pm to the808bass
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Over half the kids who get diagnosed with peanut allergies will just grow out of them.
They can still pass the susceptibility onto their kids.
What Kentucker wrote is largely correct.
Posted on 9/4/14 at 8:35 pm to UMTigerRebel
quote:no PBJ sammichs would have killed me in school. PBJ was my go to lunch and snack
No peanuts are allowed at my kids' schools either. It doesn't bother me.
Posted on 9/4/14 at 8:36 pm to 3nOut
As someone who is allergic to peanuts, I say....
Homeschool the kid
Homeschool the kid
Posted on 9/4/14 at 8:39 pm to heartbreakTiger
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no PBJ sammichs would have killed me in school. PBJ was my go to lunch and snack
This, I would've starved to death without my peanut butter.
Posted on 9/4/14 at 8:39 pm to TbirdSpur2010
Yea, I agree if a kid as a allergy like that then home school them. Then again America is selfish. FWIW I knew one person while I was in school that had a peanut allergy
Posted on 9/4/14 at 8:48 pm to heartbreakTiger
Peanut allergies are fairly common. They're just not all severe (I can consume trace amounts with no incident).
Best thing to do is teach the kid only to eat HIS food and not take chances with anything his parents didn't put in his lunchbox. That's what I had to do.
Best thing to do is teach the kid only to eat HIS food and not take chances with anything his parents didn't put in his lunchbox. That's what I had to do.
Posted on 9/4/14 at 9:11 pm to TbirdSpur2010
I'm eating peanuts by the handful here at Texas Roadhouse.
Posted on 9/4/14 at 9:23 pm to the808bass
Peanut based foods were outlawed in my daughters class last year but not the school itself because of a kid. I had no idea about it (my wife did) and made her 100 pb&j sandwiches throughout the year and it wasn't until April when a teacher told me about it after school. I was like WTF? But the kid never got sick so I guess I lucked out ha....
Posted on 9/4/14 at 9:25 pm to the808bass
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I'm eating peanuts by the handful here at Texas Roadhouse.
TR is the shite
Posted on 9/4/14 at 9:27 pm to TbirdSpur2010
It's my go to on the road.
I just looked it up. 2005 is the last year we have data and 11 total people died that year from all food allergies combined.
I just looked it up. 2005 is the last year we have data and 11 total people died that year from all food allergies combined.
Posted on 9/4/14 at 9:40 pm to The Spleen
I'd venture that there's not really much of an increase.
It used to be that when you found out your kid had an allergy, you taught them how to live in a world full of allergens, and nobody was the wiser because it didn't affect them.
Now with our nanny state, the world is taught how to live with a kid with allergies, and everybody knows.
It used to be that when you found out your kid had an allergy, you taught them how to live in a world full of allergens, and nobody was the wiser because it didn't affect them.
Now with our nanny state, the world is taught how to live with a kid with allergies, and everybody knows.
Posted on 9/4/14 at 9:42 pm to PrivatePublic
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It used to be that when you found out your kid had an allergy, you taught them how to live in a world full of allergens, and nobody was the wiser because it didn't affect them. Now with our nanny state, the world is taught how to live with a kid with allergies, and everybody knows
Good point. No shellfish for youse SOBs because I can't have any.
Posted on 9/5/14 at 9:18 am to 3nOut
My niece was allergic to them but she grew out of it around 8.
Posted on 9/5/14 at 9:35 am to The Spleen
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I'd like to know why there has been such an increase in the number of kids with peanut allergies. I don't remember a single kid having it when I was growing up.
I think the hygiene hypothesis is a popular potential answer.
From wikipedia:
In medicine, the hygiene hypothesis is a hypothesis that states that a lack of early childhood exposure to infectious agents, symbiotic microorganisms (e.g. gut flora or probiotics), and parasites increases susceptibility to allergic diseases by suppressing the natural development of the immune system. In particular, the lack of exposure is thought to lead to defects in the establishment of immune tolerance.
Posted on 9/5/14 at 9:40 am to Eric Nies Grind Time
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In medicine, the hygiene hypothesis is a hypothesis that states that a lack of early childhood exposure to infectious agents, symbiotic microorganisms (e.g. gut flora or probiotics), and parasites increases susceptibility to allergic diseases by suppressing the natural development of the immune system. In particular, the lack of exposure is thought to lead to defects in the establishment of immune tolerance.
My SIL, a pediatrician, is starting to agree with this thinking. She's now starting to recommend trying certain foods earlier than 2 if there is no history of specific allergies in the family.
Posted on 9/5/14 at 9:44 am to UMTigerRebel
I think earlier they were telling pregnant women to avoid peanuts, but then the rate did not get curbed. So they are now telling women exactly the opposite.
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