[DBrow]

The needle thing is not an issue.

You take the epi-pen out, remove the safety, and jam the black end on your thigh.

Count to ten, and that's it! Four-year-olds can do it.

You don't automatically die from every reaction. Most often you just get sick, possibly quite sick, maybe only a little.

I'm not against peanut bans because of slippery slopes or totalitarianism creeping into our lives, it's just that coping with peanut allergy is a life skill that is better learned early than late.

Being coddled too much can lead to expectations of being coddled and given special treatment later, in adult life.

If you are one of the 1-2 million Americans with peanut allergy, it's better to deal with it yourself than force the other 286,000,000 folks to deal with it for you.

[Sonny M]

You take the epi-pen out, remove the safety, and jam the black end on your thigh.

I mentioned before my friends son has a peanut allergy, I also mentioned his school banned peanuts before he got there and not because of him.

The reason goes back a few years, the story is kind of convulated, but from what they told him and he told me, it had to do with a misshap involving the needle and a former student.

They story is kind of murky, from what I (and he) understand, years earlier another student had an allergy to peanuts, the parents told the school (but did NOT ask for a ban or anything, they gave the school an "epi-pen" for emergenices).

Here is where the story get fractured, the kid was either in kindergarden or 1st grade, now either someone gave him peanuts or a peanut product (that kids parents version) or someone had peanuts and touched him or exposed him (schools version).

Kid had a reaction and the needle was either misplaced, didn't work or something.

Kid lived but was hospitalized, there was a lawsuit, and yada yada yada.

School banned peanuts after that.

To the best of my knowledge outside of a few cranky parents, there hasn't been any problems in practise with the policy.

Cute sidestory: My friends son has a peanut allergy, but his older sister doesn't, but she tries to pretend she has an allergy to all vegtables.

It doesn't work.