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This might be fun for kicks and giggles to argue the “other” side of the nanny state argument for a change.

My daughter has severe peanut allergies. (must insert this to play the liberal role of unassailable “victim”) It’s really not a joke. Nobody has ever died after being exposed to SHS, but people who are allergic to peanuts have died instantly after being exposed. No junk science there. They didn’t die 50 years later, they died on the spot.

Having said that, I’m not sitting around bitching and moaning. The first thing we did is send our daughter to a PRIVATE CATHOLIC SCHOOL that has banned peanuts. We went out of our way to find one.

Secondly, she has to know what to do and what to avoid. The Gubmint can’t protect her everywhere. She might be at a ballgame or in the park and smell roasted nuts from a vendor. When she is older, she will know how to use the Epipen herself. In the meantime, we make sure the teachers are trained in how to use it.

We all know your child has a peanut allergy. Good you sent her to a Catholic school that has banned the entire school from eating nuts. You know, I truly do sympathize with you, I love my children as much as you obviously love yours BUT I would not expect the entire school to change their lives to submit to your loved one’s dangerous allergy. It is required that her family do what they must but the entire school is not responsible to change their lifestyle to fit your dear one.

I am very sorry about the peanut allergies of your daughter and am happy you have found a school that can accomodate her needs. Too bad for the rest of the kids in that school they have a no peanut policy. Obviously since you chose the school because of the policy your daughter did not cause it, but some other parent did.

If my child had such a severe sensitivity to something as common as peanuts I would not expect anyone to cater to her.

I spent 12 years in Private Catholic schools and no such accomodations were made.

I’m sorry, I just can’t accept an entire student body of families having to cater to the needs of a few anymore than I can accept any of the rest of the nannystate bravo sierra.

The differences between nut allergies, gluten allergies and lactose intolerance are vast, one already has been touched on; briefly. A peanut allergy is difficult to manage because the protein which causes it can become aerosolized and trigger a lethal reaction. Me sitting next to you at a lunch counter munching on a turkey on white most likely won't affect you and your gluten allergy.

Lactose intolerance is natural side effect of God's plan or Evolution, if you're the enlightened sort. Milk allergy generally occurs later in life.

Any allergy can occur at any time in one's life. I developed an allergy to Aspirin and NSAIDS at some time after my 33 1/2 year. 2 weeks prior to my anaphylactic reaction to Indomethacin, I took two aspirin without any problem.

My personal hypothesis regarding the dramatic increase in peanut allergy is a direct result of Soy madness. In the past 30 years from baby formula to "modified protein", soybeans have become an inescapable ingredient in food we all eat. Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes, as are soybeans. The protein is quite large and difficult to digest for human infants to digest (vegetable cells have cell walls and are resistant to destruction by weak digestive fluids) and triggers IgE response = allergy.

Finally, let be as cold and cavalier as many of those who have fortunately escaped the wrath of any medical condition, perhaps you would not be as dismissive if the little ones in your care developed such a condition.