that banning nuts, chocolate, mangoes and kiwi's in school is U?

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just that really.....my kids have food allergies too - i know its a pain!

like some allergy organisations in the UK i don't think banning foods is the way forward - why do schools decide to do this - where do they get their advice?

but the mums who make nutella sandwiches for their dc are rather cross about it by all accounts, whatever will they send in for packed lunches now...

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3237159/Furious-parents-slam-primary-school-banning-mangoes-kiwi-fruit-case-spark-allergic-reactions.html

Why mangos

We have a dc in the school allergic to pineapple, all that means is the school kitchen don't serve any pineapple and dc can still bring whatever in for pack lunch.

Peanut allergy is slightly different but even then a complete ban is stupid imo.

Nuts I can understand if there is a child with a known severe allergy in the school (and nutella will be banned because of the nuts, not the chocolate). The rest is piffle. And I'm allergic to kiwi fruit!

Why should nut allergies get special treatment ouryve? Anaphylaxis is anaphylaxis, regardless of the cause.

Banning is all very well but what do you do about the child who buys the Forbidden Article on the way to school?

Probably because it is forbidden!

If a child has a severe allergy that means a food in another child's lunchbox could endanger them then yabu thinking children should be allowed to bring it in. Why take the risk?

Psh no dm sadfaces... poor show!

I thought removing pupils from areas with these things in was the norm? Although:

Choc is already banned in lots of schools under the healthy eating initiatives.
Nuts are often banned (although a nut ban does NOT include anything with "may contain" on it)
Not being able to take mangoes to school seems a very middle class problem.
Amazon is going to find sales.of the banana bunker dropping but I think they will live.

Personally I'd rather be inconvenienced slightly than have a child taken ill over something avoidable. If your kid only ever eats Nutella sandwiches for lunch you have bigger issues than this tbh.

I'm so sorry that the mums who read and believe the daily mail and who want to send their children into school with chocolate in their sandwiches are upset or inconvenienced!

Perhaps it's because most of them have never had to deal with a child who's allergies are life-threatening and it's not their child but they are responsible?

God, schools are shit!

My DS2 has told me that he can't eat Crunchy Nut Cornflakes for breakfast anymore because the friend he sits next to on the train is allergic to nuts. The children understand all of this stuff. It is the parents who make a fuss IMO.

If a child has a severe allergy that means a food in another child's lunchbox could endanger them then yabu thinking children should be allowed to bring it in. Why take the risk?

Most allergy advice now is that schools should not ban foods - parents should educate schools and their child to not eat the food - steer clear of the allergen - and deal with it if exposed.

Banning a food or in this case a food group is not really realistic and creates a false sense of security - if the allergy is so severe another child's breakfast reside would be likely to cause a problem.

I have a life threatening food allergy, and an allergic child, and I'm totally against bans because there's no evidence they reduce risk (except in exceptional circumstances). So I'd be very unsympathetic if our school did this!

I think that some things get banned in primary school specifically because small children are much more likely to swap bits of their lunch without considering the actual contents. My daughter knows she can't eat peanuts (or rather nuts as she's a little too little to be able to disguinish between nuts she can eat and nuts she can't) but she probably wouldn't question it if someone else where to give her a bite of their sarnie - she's 3.5 and at the school nursery. If the school had to administer the epipen because she'd had a reaction they also have to call an ambulance at the same time. I'm not sure it's a great use of resources. Not all things that people are allergic to produce an anaphylactic response so there isn't the same need to ban everything.

I was going to raise the food swapping issue. A few times I find rubbish in my children's lunchboxes that is not from their lunch. Children can be great at recognising foods they're not allowed usually, but different packaging / homemade and they might not realise. My daughter's best friend has an allergy to ginger. She's been offered all manner of homemade biscuits and cakes, somtimes she is tempted (she's 7!). The staff try to monitor / ban trades. But children are quick and outnumber the staff.