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A rational response by a parent to a child’s peanut allergy:
Calon didn’t want Trinity’s school to ban peanut butter or anything else containing nuts. She simply wanted the teachers to know who her daughter was, where her epinephrine auto-injector (EpiPen) was located and how to use it if Trinity was in trouble.
“The best thing I can do is prepare her for later in life, to make her accountable for her allergy,” Calon says.
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This is a much more resilient response to the threat. It works even when the peanut ban fails. It works whether the child has an anaphylactic reaction to nuts, fruit, dairy, gluten, or whatever.
He previously quoted a BBC News article decrying the nutty behavior, and the “lively” comments ranged from rational to nutty.
On the other end of the spectrum, my cousin’s one year-old son had a severe reaction to his first taste of peanut butter. After rushing to the hospital they were given an epi-pen and taught how to use it. Her husband is a college professor who spends four months of the year in Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park. They are over five hours from the nearest hospital, but they were only “permitted” to get two epi-pens. A dose of epinephrine must be administered every 30 minutes until arrival at the hospital… I haven’t heard for sure, but I think their doctor helped them get a few more “samples”.