to wonder if there really are a disproportionate amt of children who are allergic to ALL nuts?

[oldebaglady]

firstly, I do comply with the zero nut zone policies

secondly, happy to be corrected, am genuinely interested!

but no nuts... AT ALL?? nuts are ideal lunchbox energy/protein snacks and nut butters are great sandwich fillings, much healthier than a lot of the alternatives .

I understand that peanuts are highly allergenic, but
1: other highly allergenic things are allowed; strawberries, dairy, soya, kiwis..
2: they're lagumes aren't they? how are a few almonds gonna affect someone with a peanut allergy? or is it common to have a serious allergy to ALL nuts?

when a child has a serious allergy to a particular fruit, that fruit is banned, fruit in general isn't banned! and it's not banned unless there is actually someone attending who is allergic

the zero nuts policy don't include "may contain traces of nuts" products anyway

please understand that I don't think it's a huge sacrifice to make if some cashew butter or a few almonds in my kid's lunchbox might cause another child to be seriously ill

but exactly how likely is that? that

1. there is going to be a kid in school who is not yet diagnosed
   

and

1. they are allergic to ALL nuts
   

??

(am genuinely curious)

[Bagofmashings]

I've wondered that myself sudaname. I had terrible food avertions while pregnant. There were very few foods I could eat, cashew butter being one, 1 also ate ground almonds on toast as it was the only way I could get any protein and doesn't taste of much. DS's worst allergies are to cashews and almonds. Although he's also mildly allergic to egg, which I ate none of at all. I think not nearly enough research has been done tbh and there seems to be hugely varying opinions and a lot of confusion around the subject.

[Bagofmashings]

Sudaname We were recently told that DS would prob outgrow his egg allergy if we try to completely avoid it as much as possible. According to DS's consultant people don't outgrow nut allergies, they only usually get worse. But I've read contradictory things things about that too. Tbh I don't think anyone knows.

[sudaname]

Yes that's another thing l often wonder - whether my DS would have outgrown his egg allergy naturally without the 'building up gradually' type of technique.
Very confusing - l think l will try and stop thinking about it for tonight as l have to get some sleep and leave it to the scientists cos l got wires popping out mi 'ead now

Seriously though my heart goes out to all you mums with DCs with serious/dangerous allergies it must be a real worry on top of the normal constant worried state of being a mum and that's bad enough on it's own ! The children today though are quite savvy early on it seems (my DGD has CF just as an aside and from being around 4 or 5 she would 'scold' teachers who underestimated the importance or doseage of her Creons ). The high profile of these allergies today coupled with the DCs own knowledge can only be a good thing to keep them safe. Years ago a childs health problems were almost 'none of their business' and 'just let the grown ups worry about that dear' was the norm.

[Lasvegas]

My dd is allergic to peanuts, cashew nuts, pine nuts and sesseme seeds. her consultant advises avoiding all nuts as he says sometimes factory will add another nut to pesto for example if they run out of pine nuts. in year 1 at packed lunch table one horrid girl threw sesseme seeds at dd as she knew she was allergic!

[sudaname]

Ah Lasvegas that's horrible. Thats what l meant in my last post - its just yet another extra danger out there that children with allergies are exposed to, on top of road safety, talking to strangers etc etc.