AIBU to be pissed off that the head teacher has banned nutella in the school for one child?

[eddiejo]

The story.... one boy (hers) has allergy to nuts so now nutella is banned . I totally understand the whole anaphlaxis thing but as mum to year 1 boy with multiple food allergies - i would never expect the rest of the school to stop eating what he is allergic to.

Nutella was one of the few spreads which he could eat and made the bread edible. not healthy I know but more important to get energy in him.

What do you think?

If peanuts are really so dangerous how come we send them to children in the third world.
SaveTheChildren
Do they not have allergies or don't they matter?

when i was at college there was someone who was so severely allergic to Oranges that they were banned from the corridors and the person wasn't to go in the canteen.

I thought it odd that you couldn't have tehm in teh corridor but i am lucky in that my son is only allergic to Beee stings

my dd is educated she is 16 but the other week had a very scarey experience - she sat at a table ate a packet of doritos and a ham sandwich and reacted. Now as far as I can make out there is nothing in the ham sandwich (home made) or the doritos so the only thing could have been that someone had sat at the table before her with something containing nuts.

School failed to call an ambulance because thought she was having a panic attack rather than an allergic reaction. My friend picked her up got her as far as an ambulance station where her epi pen was given and every other drug under the sun. Now tbh that was bad enough to go through at 16 so i think that all primary schools should be nut free it would be awful for a little one to have to go through when they have no idea what has been on that table before them.

It is interesting that there is a very low incidence of peanut allergy in those parts of the world where it is a staple part of the diet.

I believe there is a fair bit of research going on which is looking at why this might be. One theory is that teh advice to avoid peanuts in pregnancy and while breastfeeding, was actually wrong. That the minute quantities of allergens that cross from mother to baby actually helped the baby desensitise to the allergens. Some of the work going on (which I believe another MNetter is involved in) to work with children to mimic this desensitisation seems to be proving quite fruitful.

I imagine that the next few years will see quite significant changes in how we manage severe, life threatening allergies!

Yes, Kerrymum, because a child with severe allergies in a 3rd world country dies while being weaned, nobody can afford an autopsy, and it's mother thinks it choked.

Good question onager.

Do you reckon Colditz?

I think there is more to it than that.

Skepicism about allergies really is so Daily Mail.

Hmm - has anyone been skeptical on this thread - I haven't notice that!

Also because in the western world we mainly eat peanuts roasted, whereas the third world they tend to be eaten raw or boiled. Studies have found roasted peanuts are far more allergenic than raw peanuts.

My father is from a mediterranean country where nuts are very much part of the diet and we always had some sort of nuts or seeds in the house.
Unfortunately he has inherited his allergy from DH who is allergic to Brazil nuts and several other things

sorry that was meant to say DS has inherited his allergies from DH

Agree with FAQ. Educating children is one thing but getting them to do what they're told is another! My ds1 is 12 now, knows he's not supposed to eat stuff from other people's lunches but still came home the other day with a "foreign" yoghurt carton. a type we don't allow! And of course he denied all knowledge of how it had gotten into his lunchbox!

My DS went red all over once and started to swell, we gave him Piriton and took him to A&E and he was allergic to something. To this day we do not know.

I do believe that schools should have a table for children who have allergies.

Also, I think that children who do have allergies, should be tested regularly at the clinic to see if they still have them. DS was allergic to grass for years. It made excema come up on his little legs like no tomorrow. This year he was fine thank goodness. So the Allergies don't last forever.

I hadn't thought about cereal bars containing nuts. I give DS an Alpen bar every day. His school is non nuts and when I don't do the packed lunch the day before, DH does put nutella on occasion.

YABU
I had vaguely similar thoughts a while ago then I read some posts on here and thought about it
I mean use of epipen at school, misuse of epipen at school little child dying in lunchroom in front of school children doesn't really need thinking about beyond that does it?

(Sorry if I've upset anyone with a nut allergic dc or been too dramatic)

I think St Thomas' is doing a large study about this at the moment

peanuts aren't nuts; they are legumes. they are in the family of beans. have they banned nutella or hazelnut spreads?

Not read whole thresd, but if it was your child with a 'potentially' life threatening food allergy(and I'm assuming your lo doesn't have a 'life threatening' one)you would surely want it banned too? I would. My Ds had many food allergies which he's mostly grown out of. They weren't potentially fatal, so it wasn't necessary to ban them, but I'd expect to be compliant in the nut case. ha! ooops! sorry.

shcool allows nutela shocker!!!

i dont beliiiiiiiieve it

where are the food police

i think there is too much paranoia about the no eating peanut 'stuff' while pregnant... in canada there is no ban on pregnant women eating it because the research is inconclusive. all my friends with kids ate peanut butter while pregnant and none of the children have problems... although i'm not downplaying allergys as they are serious. growing up and still today, schools cannot cut grass while class is in session because of hayfever. lots of kids these days are highly sensitive to corn and it's by-products due to gmo-ing it to the tits.

Solo, no I wouldn't. I would ask, however, that DS was manned throughout lunchtime. If they couldn't accommodate this I would take him home at lunchtime.