Posted on 01/05/2005 5:17:35 AM PST by WestVirginiaRebel
YORKTOWN, Ind.-Savannah Dowling is a typical 8-year-old girl; much of her protein comes from peanut butter sandwiches.
However, if she wants to bring one to Central Indiana's Pleasant View Elementary School, she has to eat it at a special table to accomodate one first grader with a severe allergy. Soon she'll have to take her lunch to an area the school is calling the "peanut gallery" so the one child with the peanut allergy isn't affected.
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Sorry, but this kid isn't part of a fringe group. He or she (I'd don't remember which now) is part of a group that could drop dead from slight expsure to peanuts. Now, imagine this is YOUR child.
I IMAGINE that if this were my child, I would IMAGINE that a public school cafeteria would be a place of possible exposure, and I IMAGINE I would not put my child in said public school cafeteria. I don't IMAGINE that I would expect the whole dang world to be inconvenienced on behalf of my child.
Taking parental responsibility for my own child's well-being rather than hand it off to the Government; IMAGINE that!
Side Note: I attended this very elementary school as a fifth-grader the first year it was open (back in the early seventies) and remember the cafeteria well. Oops! Giving away my age, lol!
"Bite me.
I'd rather not--I probably have an allergy."
Oh, go ahead....I'd like to see what your allergic reaction would be like. Maybe your thoat would close up so you couldn't breathe.
You didn't explain that in your original post. I'm not saying anything is funny. My god, exactly the opposite.
I can see the schools NOT serving peanut butter. Why was a cafeteria worker handing something directly to a child anyway, and not on a tray or a plate.
I'm not trying to be hateful. I really was just curious. Good gods, we deal with enough allergy crap in my own house that while I'm sympathetic, personal responsibility is still key.
Oh, and btw, we homeschool my allergic child and her twin. And when we eat out, we eat at "safe" places for she and I. That's life. I can either live it or hide from it.
How many kids is "a lot?" What percentage? Studies? Statistics?
Probably. Liberals have that effect on me.
It's all the chemicals we ingest. Has to be.
I've followed this conversation, and your intolerant replies. Since breaking the FR rules seems to be OK with you, let me be the first:
Everything you've posted on this thread indicates you are an insensitive, liberal jerk. No consideration of others at all, no tolerance for other opinions, and when challenged, you attack the challenger. Go back to DU, and stay there.
It's intolerant of others, and it's divisive and destructive to our society in the very same way multiculturalism is.
I would remind you that calling others names is a violation of posting guidelines. Knock it off.
See here.
Question for discussion: Would it be justified homicide in self-defense if a peanut allergy sufferer shot someone eating peanuts?
Better yet, will a child that brings a peanut butter sandwich to school, be subject to imprisonment for injury or death of an allergic student?
Well, you never know these days....zero tolerance and all that, you know. :/
Oh, so it's ok for people to attack me personally and call me a liberal etc.,because I disagree with them... but I call someone an ignorant jerk and I get a "knock it off" from you? I've seen MUCH worse (vulgarity and the like) posted on this site by others and nothing said about it.
A little googling reveals that about 0.5% of children have a peanut or treenut allergy. That's 1 out of 200.
Approximately 0.1% of children have a severe peanut allergy that produces severe or life-threatening symptoms. That's 1 out of 1000 children.
That gives context to the conversation.
I am going to have to agree with the other guy on this one. You say that it doesn't cost other people anything but you are wrong. They are being forced to bow to your childrens alergies. Your children can go to a special room at lunch time so those that want to eat peanut butter can do so. Your children are the ones with the problem. As for watching a child suffer and almost die because of alergies mine has an alergy to bees and one sting can be a death sentance. We aer not avodcating the banning of bees from schools. We do insist that our child carry the antidote to this reaction however. I am wondering if they have a similar antidote for peanut oil reactions? and if they do do you have your child carry it or does the school have it on hand? If not why?
Both kids have an epipen for attacks....the youngest has his at the office while at school. We have one for school, home and travel for each kid. We also keep benadryl, zyrtec and pepcid handy at all times.
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http://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/allergystat.htm
Experts estimate food allergy occurs in 6 to 8 percent of children 4 years of age or under, and in 4 percent of adults. [15, 20] Approximately 150 Americans, usually adolescents and young adults, die annually from food-induced anaphylaxis. [16]
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http://www.marchofdimes.com/professionals/681_1819.asp
Peanut or tree nut allergies affect approximately 0.6 percent and 0.4 percent of Americans, respectively, and cause the most severe food-induced allergic reactions. [17]
The prevalence of allergy to peanut products is approximately 1% of the U.S. population, and one out of four allergic individuals has severe allergy, with severe respiratory or gastro-intestinal symptoms.
http://preventdisease.com/news/articles/peanut_allergies_more_common.shtml
Nut and peanut allergies may be getting more common in children, doubling over the past five years in the United States, researchers reported.
Peanut allergies affect an estimated 1.5 million Americans and 200 people die every year from severe allergic reactions, called anaphylactic reactions, to peanuts.
http://www.allergyhealthonline.com/common/articles.cfm?ARTID=213
Roughly 1.5 million people suffer from a severe allergy to peanuts in the United States, according the AAAAI.
http://www.allergyhealthonline.com/common/articles.cfm?ARTID=171
True food allergies occur in roughly 1 to 2 percent of adults and 3 to 8 percent of children, according to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America. About 90 percent of all food allergies have been traced to the following foods:
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Cow’s milk
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Eggs
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Peanuts
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Tree nuts (e.g., almonds, walnuts)
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Wheat
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Soybeans
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Fish
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Shellfish
http://www.beaumonthospitals.com/pls/portal30/cportal30.webpage?l_recent=P00037
Eight percent of children 6 years old or younger experience food allergies. An estimated 1 percent to 2 percent of adults have food allergies.
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