Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 10/7/2005 12:28:00 AM Author: williamsmummy Subject: nut allergy I can explain Terri, allergies are individual, someone can have mild hay fever for instance ,and just have a slight sniffle and waterey eyes. But another can have more extreme reactions, and cant go to work or leave the house. ( I met a man at the houses of parliment ( UK) who was put on strong steriods for his extreme hay fever, after 10 years he needed both hips replaced due to bone thininng at 40 yrs old) Each allergic reaction, and it's out come is based on other circumtances, the amount injested, and the health of the allergic person at the time. In my comfort zone, based on my childs previous reactions and his immunologist advice, I would consider, at 9yrs it to be a low risk if my son was to sit next to anyone eating a peanut butter sandwich. This was a very different picture at 4 yrs. Its hard for parents and family relations to accept the reality of the severity of a reaction to the basic stuff of life , food. But its true, small amounts can have the potenital to kill. There is hope for a cure in a few years, but until then, avoidance is the only safe way to keep a food allergic person safe. How that person or their familes approach this is due to their own comfort zones, and each individual allergies. Name: Email: Subject

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