If the child is at that much risk, why are the parents sending him to public school where instant death is possible?
Pardon me but something is amiss here. Any parent who would put that child in that kind of risk is not a very good parent.
You know, that's not for me to judge, especially since I'm not a parent myself, and it wasn't the point of my post. All I was trying to say is that it is wrong to totally dismiss these allergies out of hand as some fabrication, because they are real. Back in the 50's, there wasn't AIDS, but there is now. Years ago we had to deal with all kinds of diseases that are totally wiped out now. Things change over time. BTW, thank God my cousin is only mildly allergic to peanuts and doesn't have to worry about things like this at school. It all the other nuts that pose the problem.