Home Featured Content Article Archive Directors' Choice Awards About Us Activities & Curriculum Arts & Crafts Teacher Quicksource Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Blog State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 6/12/2005 9:22:00 PM Author: Mom and teacher Subject: information Have you ever spoken to an allergist? Have you ever researched allergies? You are making judgments based solely on your opinions. If you took a look at the book, The Peanut Allergy Answer Book by Michael C. Young, M.D., you would find out that no peanut allergy research was done at all until 1976 and the first research linking anaphylaxis death to peanut allergy was in 1988. That's why you didn't hear about it when you were a kid. Did you hear about AIDS when you were a kid? It wasn't a problem in this country when you were a kid. Peanut allergies are increasing at quite a rapid rate (peanut allergies in children have doubled in the past five years.) You didn't hear about them when you were a kid because there probably wasn't anyone around you who was allergic to peanuts! You are entitled to an opinion, but it helps to have hard, cold facts to back up that opinion. By the way, a child could have a mild reaction to nuts one time and then the next time they could have a reaction so bad that it's life threatening. That's why they are told to avoid nuts and to keep an epi pen with them at all times. You never know what the reaction might be. As for the child going out to public places, kids would be stunted socially if you kept them at home and didn't ever let them go out due to the fear that they might be exposed to nuts. However, the fear is a realistic one and parents do what they can to safeguard the child. We carry my daughter's meds with us wherever we go--even if we just go outside to play. I monitor everything she is eating and I don't allow any products with nuts in my house. We do a lot. However, keeping her at home is not an answer. She has to function in society just like anyone else. We just have to be prepared that she might have a reaction when we are in public. Maybe you should talk to your doctor if you don't believe this allergy really exists. Get the facts. Then make up your mind. Name: Email: Subject

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