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Boy with nut allergy banned from school because he is a 'health and safety risk'
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Posted on 09/27/2007 2:22:06 PM PDT by UKrepublican

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To: from occupied ga

yeah...Jimmuh is toxic in so many ways, and now he’s also a danger to people with peanut allergies...who knew?

I think he outta be banned....what do you think? :)


161 posted on 09/28/2007 1:47:13 PM PDT by tpanther
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To: dinoparty
http://www.aaaai.org/patients/advocate/2003/fall/jaci.stm This guy says casual contact with peanut butter is not a problem.

He also doesn't seem all that excited about peanut packets.

I'd watch out for violent people waving syringes packed with peanut oil protein extract though.

162 posted on 09/28/2007 1:49:39 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: dinoparty
Interesting note in that article I referred you to. Seems peanut proteins, when roasted, serve as a sort of digestive enzyme suppressant.

That's probably a doggone good idea for folks who are highly sensitive to alpha amylase (or who are diabetic but produce excessive quantities of beta amaylase).

They NEED roasted peanuts you know ~ life and death situation under some conditions.

163 posted on 09/28/2007 1:57:55 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: dinoparty

Those that have perfume allergies might not wholly agree with you.
I understand your childs allergy from the sounds of it is severe. And I am not trying to be facetious here but what happens if his bus driver had peanuts with their breakfast? Or at the mall? Or a ballgame? Or even out on the street?
Will peanuts be banned from everywhere? And what happens when the child grows up and goes to college? Will they too have to ban them?
I am sorry...but the onus on your childs safety is not my 7yr olds obligation to insure. That may sound cold...but thats what life is sometimes. And by the way, she wont eat bologna and we dont eat it home ...did you hear its not healthy?


164 posted on 09/28/2007 2:23:18 PM PDT by donnab
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To: donnab

Obviously, when a child is older and more mature, he will have the judgment to protect himself better than when he is little. That is when it is scary. But what do you care, your child hasn’t developed any severe allergies or disabilities (yet), right?

You say: “That may sound cold...but thats what life is sometimes.”

I say: Yes, you are correct, and I now know I won’t be able to expect any help from you or your ilk in warming it up even a tad.


165 posted on 09/28/2007 3:02:04 PM PDT by dinoparty
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To: muawiyah

“This guy says casual contact with peanut butter is not a problem.”

Funny, I must have just imagined my son’s emergency room visit after casual contact with peanuts.


166 posted on 09/28/2007 3:04:18 PM PDT by dinoparty
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To: dinoparty

It might be more helpful to educate people. Instead of taking things away, give them knowledge so more would know what to do if your child was somehow away from you.
This thread made me go do some researching. And Ive been reading about peanut allergies today.
In all I have read so far, from sites made for children with allergies to sites like the Mayo Clinic, there has at no time been the recommendation that peanuts be outlawed anywhere. As a matter of fact all of the sites have stated that anyone with an allergy does not have to stop enjoying outdoors, people, restaurants etc., even those with severe forms. What it did recommend was that they have a plan, educate those around them and carry an epipen.
And yes YOU are correct, you wont be able to expect any help from me (I cant speak for my ilk) in allowing more things to be taken away from anyone. It seems to be an extreme reaction to the problem and one that the schools take to avoid litigation.
Warming up a tad? You might have more luck with that. I do afterall today know more about it than I did yesterday.


167 posted on 09/28/2007 3:12:07 PM PDT by donnab
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To: muawiyah

No, he had no reaction to apple or pear. Slight reaction to birch pollen.


168 posted on 09/28/2007 5:09:46 PM PDT by gitmo (From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.)
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To: gitmo
An allergy to birch pollen is not significant. An allergy to bark, leaves, or "edible portions" is very serious ~ fortunately few of us try to eat them at these latitudes.

In the far North birch trees grow up to be small shrubs full of cyanide.

169 posted on 09/28/2007 5:15:24 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

LOL

No offense to anyone on the thread but human beings strongly allergic to basic food products are abominations in the sight of the Lord (like identical twins/triplets/etc.) At some point we’re going to have to realize that those so stricken have been targeted by nature for termination and are a drag on our genetic vigor as a species.

no offense.

;P


170 posted on 09/28/2007 5:22:02 PM PDT by Skywalk (Transdimensional Jihad!)
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To: UKrepublican

Sorry if it has been said before, but this is nutty.


171 posted on 09/28/2007 5:26:12 PM PDT by YdontUleaveLibs (Reason is out to lunch. How may I help you?)
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To: Skywalk
The deal is this ~ humanity is organized to survive an Ice Age with wide, but long lasting, swings in temperature.

Some of us are prepared better for the cold times and others for the warm times.

From the point of view of the Celiac, wheat eaters are freaks who eat poison.

172 posted on 09/28/2007 5:26:50 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Skywalk

Actually, it is libertarians who would be a drag on the species, but fortunately very few of them are attractive enough to procreate.


173 posted on 09/28/2007 6:20:53 PM PDT by dinoparty
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To: tpanther
Banned, gaged, and ignored
174 posted on 09/28/2007 8:27:37 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government, Benito Guilinni a short man in search of a balcony)
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To: muawiyah

Jesus H. Christ!


175 posted on 09/28/2007 9:35:06 PM PDT by HIDEK6
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To: UKrepublican

Can’t they just have her sign a waiver where she promises not to sue when her son dies at school?


176 posted on 09/28/2007 10:50:06 PM PDT by Junior_G
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To: dinoparty

What does libertarianism have to do with any of this?

Other than the idea of not shackling every other child in the school because one has serious allergies to everyday food products?


177 posted on 09/29/2007 4:52:39 AM PDT by Skywalk (Transdimensional Jihad!)
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To: Skywalk

Just that any time there is a chance to be an a** in a thread like this, it is usually the ugly libertarians that step up to the plate. I knew these types in college and after, and except for some drunken liasons with fat chicks, they were very lonely losers.


178 posted on 09/29/2007 5:29:15 AM PDT by dinoparty
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To: muawiyah

I’ve chewed on birch and made birch beer and birch tea many times. I’ve never heard of CN being in birch.


179 posted on 09/29/2007 8:03:33 AM PDT by gitmo (From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.)
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To: gitmo
After reading several articles about the birch/apple/pear allergy, the cyanide situation appears to be most critical in situations where birch trees grow only a few inches high ~ mostly in the Taiga in the far North.

Still, birch, like peach pits, apricot pits, and unroasted almonds (and hundreds of other seeds) contains cyanide to a greater or lesser degree.

180 posted on 09/29/2007 1:47:45 PM PDT by muawiyah
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