Posted on 11/26/2005 12:21:14 PM PST by EveningStar
Of course. You don't turn an entire society on its head to provide marginal, illusory benefits to microscopic special-interest groups. No matter how much the leftists try.
Exactly. And it's better for the kid, in terms of education and safety. A home envorinment, you can control, but putting the kid into a public system with hundreds of other individuals who don't have this allergy is just begging for trouble.
For statists, it never stops. Busybody nannies spend their entire waking lives figuring out how to force others to modify their behavior.
See, for example, Republicans and democRats.
I checked the medical literature and did not find anything on vegans and increased allergies; on the contrary, the literature has a few studies suggesting that vegan diets can help in some autoimmune disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis. And remember, it would only be the early sensitization with soy formula that would likely make the difference.
I agree completely--and I've got one of these odd allergies myself. My parents never demanded that the school impose restrictions on everyone else because of me. You know why? Such a thought never even crossed their minds. If someone had suggested it to them, they would have rejected it as unthinkable.
Things sure have changed since I was a kid. But the fact remains that it is my responsibility to read labels and ask about ingredients when I am in a restaurant. The responsibility of the food industry or anyone else ends with accurate disclosure. It's not their job to insulate me from my allergy when that means denying a perfectly legal class of foods to people who have a right to eat it.
Yes - it was in a jury room. Everyone hated this one juror, and in an effort to make him sick and get him off the jury, someone put peanut butter in his soup (knowing he was allergic to peanuts). He died instead.
Every kid needs to eat a pound of dirt.
Kids don't play dangerous games outside anymore.
Ouch.
That's about the worst thing I've ever heard.
That, and the fact that diagnosis and treatment have gotten a lot better. I have to wonder how many unexplained deaths of children in years past were actually peanut or other allergies. If children are exposed to peanuts at an early age, does that cause the allergy, or were those deaths written off as SIDS before?
AS the mother of a child with a very severe allergy to peanuts (he just spent 24 hours in the hosp after getting hit in the face with a peanut butter cookie at a food fight), I do not expect schools to become peanut free. What I have worked out with schools is that there is a peanut free table in the cafeteria, where only people with no peanuts in their lunch may sit.
Incidentally, when he was in elementary school, the cafeteria did go peanut free after my son had to be airlifted from a cookie that was inadvertently placed on his tray. I suspect more school cafeterias will go to this
This is a real problem, and these kids can die after just touching something that has touched peanuts. I think kids can cont to enjoy their pbj at school and reasonable accomodations can be made for allergic kids--I do not dictate to others what they can do, just ask for understanding and cooperation. I think this can solve most problems.
No--SIDS and severe peanut allergies occur at different ages. Asthma and peanut anaphylaxis have increased in absolute terms. No question. See above post about soy bean formula possibly being the sensitizing culprit.
Yes, contact with peanut can cause reactions.
If you leave little dabs of peanut on a tabletop, there are people that will get a rash, or hives, or even a fullblown allergic reaction from the micrograms they pick up when they touch he table after you.
There are other alergens just as bad, like shellfish or tree nut.
Actually, once you have a reaction, every subsequent reaction will get worse. Also teaching avoidance behavoirs helps, but the last data I saw said that 75% of adults making a good effort to avoid peanuts still had a reaction over a 5 yr span. THe problem is you can't avoid the behavior of others.
The restaurant worker who cuts your sandwich with a knife used on something with peanuts in it. The spoon set on the counter next to the peanut butter, etc. Or like my son, the food fight where you get hit with something with peanuts in it. The bottom line is if you have a peanut allergy you need to be vigilant and ready 24/7. This is very difficult to teach teenagers, believe me. I do agree most deaths are people who either do not have their epinephrine with them, or who do not use it in a timely matter. But you can never let your guard down
And yes, there is the rare case where you do everything right and still have a fatal outcome. I expect my son to live a normal lifespan, but I spend a lot of time on my knees over this one, because ultimately only God can keep him safe.
Yes. Touching the cookie in the food fight bought him 24 hours in the hospital, and this was not one of his severe reactions.
Just walking into one of those bars that have buckets of peanuts on the counter can kill a highly-allergic person. Just breathing the dust. I got in an argument with an anti-smoking zealot one time about this - he admitted that while he couldn't stand to walk into a smoky bar, at least he wouldn't drop right down dead, the way a peanut-allergic person would in a peanut bar.
It's only because a black man invented peanut butter.
So it's possible that in years past, before soy formula was available, the babies might have died from "failure to thrive" and wouldn't have become allergic to peanuts?
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