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In reply to the discussion: Mom Demands School Go Peanut-Free For Allergic Child [View all]Warpy
(111,652 posts)Her kid is going to have to deal with the whole wide world some day and it might as well start now. I've got all sorts of food allergies. I avoid those foods.
Chances are he's not even really allergic. Allergists testing children whose parents claimed they were allergic to peanuts found only a minority of them actually were. Momma needs a note from a real allergist, at the very least, to get her kid ghettoized at lunch.
This woman is a control freak and needs to be slapped down. If her kid is allergic enough to be affected by another kid across the table (or across the room) with a peanut butter sandwich, he can jolly well eat lunch alone in a classroom. Or Momma can jolly well home school him.
However, feeding her a Valium will likely take care of her kid just fine.
http://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/peanut-allergies-overstated