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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 392540" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>I am sorry your grandbaby is allergic. It sure isn't ANY fun for him, or his parents. At least the first reaction was not severe enough to be life threatening, and his mom is a nurse!</p><p> </p><p>As for WIC, they give moms a choice between peanut butter and tuna plus beans. Most moms take peanut butter because it costs more to buy. I was not told ANYTHING about a link between the mom eating something and the child being allergic to it. In fact I was encouraged by every book, doctor and nurse to eat LOTS of high protein foods including peanut butter!!</p><p> </p><p>Our entire school district has gone peanut free - it can be VERY hard to find items thank you likes that will pack well that do NOT have peanuts. He has only had ONE child in his classroom with a peanut allergy - this is for the entire 7 years he has been in school (including preK and K). One child, ONE year as the parent moved the child to the local private school after that one year. His entire school has only THREE kids with peanut allergies, and they have classes from preK to 5th grade, and still the ENTIRE school has to be totally peanut free!!! in my opinion it is an over-reaction. A peanut free table seems more appropriate, even having certain classes be peanut free if there is a child there who is allergic to peanuts. NOBODY went milk free when thank you couldn't have milk. They didn't even give him an alternate drink with his lunch if he got the school lunch. He was given more fruit and veggies if he had to skip something with cheese, and they did keep some hot dogs on hand if he wanted school lunch and it had cheese or tomatos, but that was IT. And even the hot dogs were a problem at first - I had to teach them that casein and some of the other things in the hot dogs they were buying (and giving to twelve, yes 12, kids with milk allergies that were NOT due to lactose intolerance) were a problem for a kid with a milk allergy. At least 4 of the kids with milk allergies, including thank you, reacted with respiratory symptoms and had to have an epipen at school. Those kids had to have TWO epipens at school - one in the office and one in the cafeteria just in case. Talk about an expense for parents!!! We could only get 1 each 6 months unless we had doctor's or hospital notes that showed it was used! So we had to pay for the 2 pens at school and the 1 that had to be kept on the bus!!!!!! Epipens are NOT cheap - I got lucky to have an allergist who thought it was wrong to put limits like that on the pens when kids NEEDED them in more than one place. He ALWAYS had a couple that he got from the pharm co rep - so if they were expired we could just call him and he would actually MAIL them overnight to us so that school could have enough of them to keep my kid safe. He said too many parents were spending WAY too much on bills and were trying to cut corners with not enough pens so that in a true emergency one of "his" kids could die while someone tried to go get the epipen. Since he COULD get them from the rep, in substantial amounts, he thought he SHOULD help parents. He was a real gem. </p><p> </p><p>Anyway, I completely believe it is the additives in our food, leftover chemicals sprayed on fields, soil additives, chemicals on animal feed, etc... that have helped give rise to the problems we currently face. I also think that there is something to the notion that our bodies are all geared up to fight some major disease (and some of this ramp up is likely from vaccines), so it goes on the attack and attacks US instead of the many diseases that we either vaccinate against or simply do not see anymore. My immune system has completely trashed my body, in so many ways (including completely destroying my thyroid to the point that it cannot be FOUND by touch, which is almost unheard of! I have had FIVE docs try to find my thyroid by feeling it - NONE have been able to, and it explains why I can gain weight on a diet of under 1000 calories a day, according to my docs. </p><p> </p><p>There are some great alternatives to peanuts and peanut butter, including a soy butter that is marketed to taste like peanut butter and in my opinion tastes BETTER. Heck, if I still bought the tofutti cutie ice cream sandwiches my kids would FIGHT over them because they taste so good, ditto the tofutti cream cheese!! Sometimes the "alternative" foods open up a whole world of things we might not have ever tried otherwise.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 392540, member: 1233"] I am sorry your grandbaby is allergic. It sure isn't ANY fun for him, or his parents. At least the first reaction was not severe enough to be life threatening, and his mom is a nurse! As for WIC, they give moms a choice between peanut butter and tuna plus beans. Most moms take peanut butter because it costs more to buy. I was not told ANYTHING about a link between the mom eating something and the child being allergic to it. In fact I was encouraged by every book, doctor and nurse to eat LOTS of high protein foods including peanut butter!! Our entire school district has gone peanut free - it can be VERY hard to find items thank you likes that will pack well that do NOT have peanuts. He has only had ONE child in his classroom with a peanut allergy - this is for the entire 7 years he has been in school (including preK and K). One child, ONE year as the parent moved the child to the local private school after that one year. His entire school has only THREE kids with peanut allergies, and they have classes from preK to 5th grade, and still the ENTIRE school has to be totally peanut free!!! in my opinion it is an over-reaction. A peanut free table seems more appropriate, even having certain classes be peanut free if there is a child there who is allergic to peanuts. NOBODY went milk free when thank you couldn't have milk. They didn't even give him an alternate drink with his lunch if he got the school lunch. He was given more fruit and veggies if he had to skip something with cheese, and they did keep some hot dogs on hand if he wanted school lunch and it had cheese or tomatos, but that was IT. And even the hot dogs were a problem at first - I had to teach them that casein and some of the other things in the hot dogs they were buying (and giving to twelve, yes 12, kids with milk allergies that were NOT due to lactose intolerance) were a problem for a kid with a milk allergy. At least 4 of the kids with milk allergies, including thank you, reacted with respiratory symptoms and had to have an epipen at school. Those kids had to have TWO epipens at school - one in the office and one in the cafeteria just in case. Talk about an expense for parents!!! We could only get 1 each 6 months unless we had doctor's or hospital notes that showed it was used! So we had to pay for the 2 pens at school and the 1 that had to be kept on the bus!!!!!! Epipens are NOT cheap - I got lucky to have an allergist who thought it was wrong to put limits like that on the pens when kids NEEDED them in more than one place. He ALWAYS had a couple that he got from the pharm co rep - so if they were expired we could just call him and he would actually MAIL them overnight to us so that school could have enough of them to keep my kid safe. He said too many parents were spending WAY too much on bills and were trying to cut corners with not enough pens so that in a true emergency one of "his" kids could die while someone tried to go get the epipen. Since he COULD get them from the rep, in substantial amounts, he thought he SHOULD help parents. He was a real gem. Anyway, I completely believe it is the additives in our food, leftover chemicals sprayed on fields, soil additives, chemicals on animal feed, etc... that have helped give rise to the problems we currently face. I also think that there is something to the notion that our bodies are all geared up to fight some major disease (and some of this ramp up is likely from vaccines), so it goes on the attack and attacks US instead of the many diseases that we either vaccinate against or simply do not see anymore. My immune system has completely trashed my body, in so many ways (including completely destroying my thyroid to the point that it cannot be FOUND by touch, which is almost unheard of! I have had FIVE docs try to find my thyroid by feeling it - NONE have been able to, and it explains why I can gain weight on a diet of under 1000 calories a day, according to my docs. There are some great alternatives to peanuts and peanut butter, including a soy butter that is marketed to taste like peanut butter and in my opinion tastes BETTER. Heck, if I still bought the tofutti cutie ice cream sandwiches my kids would FIGHT over them because they taste so good, ditto the tofutti cream cheese!! Sometimes the "alternative" foods open up a whole world of things we might not have ever tried otherwise. [/QUOTE]
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