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: 6/14/2005 10:57:00 AM Author: Mom and teacher Subject: never said the child was "safe" I never said an allergic child was safe at a ballgame or amusement park. That is a precaution that will hopefully save the child if necessary. There are educated risks that each parent must take and they all have different levels of "comfort zones". Some people wouldn't take that child to a ballgame. Others say that they would with an epi pen and a cell phone to call 911. You have to make these difficult decisions when you are a parent of an allergic child. As for the increase of food allergies, you are right only in one respect. People have been eating peanuts for a very long time. However, the facts do state that peanut allergies are increasing. Truth: doctors don't know why right now. They are currently researching that. I can't believe you think the health insurance industry, the media and lawyers all got together and said, "Let's hype this up. Maybe we can get people to stop eating peanut butter. In the process maybe we can get a few lawsuits." Gimme a break! I've said it before and I'll say it again. I know you'll never change your mind. I could show you textbook after textbook filled with answers and proof, but you won't change your mind 'cause you want your peanuts and peanut butter. Why won't you talk to a doctor about this? Are you afraid that you will be proven wrong? Name: Email: Subject

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