Posted on 03/26/2010 3:42:01 PM PDT by Little Bill
Nut-free school spurs education campaign
By George Brennan / Cape Cod Times
Friday, March 26, 2010 - Added 9h ago
EAST SANDWICH — Protecting a child with peanut and tree nut allergies takes vigilance, education and becoming a "label-reading machine," a pediatric allergist told local parents last night.
Dr. Michael Pistiner, a Leominster-based allergist and a clinical instructor at Children’s Hospital Boston, met yesterday with teachers, nurses, bus drivers, administrators and families at Oak Ridge School about severe food allergies, reports the Cape Cod Times.
Last night, he finished his day-long visit speaking to a gathering of about three dozen parents and school officials in the Oak Ridge cafeteria. The focus was about how complicated it can be to protect children from harmful foods and pointing out the potentially deadly consequences of accidental exposure.
"There’s a lot of uncertainty around food allergies, and there’s a lot of gray areas and there’s a lot that we don’t know. Inevitably, with uncertainty comes fear," Pistiner said. "That’s the purpose of today’s series of talks — to replace that uncertainty with education, facts and empowerment, and to hopefully unite this community."
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Nobody will restrict my diet.
I will eat those who try.
No, nothing to crazy, but we did play games where minor pain was part of the game. A real popular game was smear the queer where the point of the game was to tackle the person holding a football. You were suppose to time how long you held on but no one ever did. Even when I graduated in 2003 from High School dodgeball was still very popular.
Protecting a child with peanut and tree nut allergies takes vigilanceMaybe the kid should be required to live in a plastic bubble.
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