[netmilsmom]

Isn't there some kind of shot to give these kids?

If my daughter could not have Pb&J for lunch, she would not eat.

[tiki]

Yes, there is a shot and there is a pill that you can put under the tongue too. My husband is allergic to bananas in this way but he was educated about what to do and what to avoid and he's made it to 50.

[Iris7]

There is no prevention. Treatment is only for the allergic reaction. Pure adrenalin injections are carried 24/7 ready for instant injection into the vein or even directly into the heart.

Take one peanut in the hand and then eat a clean sandwich without scrubbing the hands first is enough. A peanut butter sandwich fifty feet upwind and they can break out in hives. A peanut anaphylactic allergy is death.

Rough for the parent although the kids aren't all that bothered, not being old enough. The reason we see so much of an increase these days is that in the old days the children would die from it very young, and children dying was routine, expectable. A hundred years ago a fourth of American children died by age twelve, as I recall.

I have children. This thing is as tough as leukemia to face. Maybe worse.