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NUT FREE HOME - FOR CHILDREN WITH PEANUT ALLERGY |
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by Tammy13  (February 2008) (rank 87th) |
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The choice to make a “clean and clear” your home from nuts is excellent! This is what we did, and LIFE (at home) is much easier! I have heard of so many stories of accidents that happened in children’s homes, just because the house was not
“clean” from the anaphylaxis allergen!
Please keep your home NUT FREE ZONE. Don’t allow anyone to bring you foods that have nuts. Your friends and family will get used to it eventually.
There are 2 reasons to do that:
1) The obvious reason – IT IS SAFER!!!! We can all make mistakes, so by making the home nut free – you eliminate that! Be firm about this rule! It is not easy but eventually everybody learns and respects it. We had a problem with a family member that kept bringing to our home foods with nuts (like cakes and such). Initially we politely explained, and explained and explained… and then, at my son’s birthday party that family member walked into our home with a sweet desert that had nut traces. My husband and I looked at him, and he said “oh, just keep it in the fridge and eat it later when the child will go to sleep”. At that point I was so upset from the continuance ignoring of our rule, that I dropped my manners, and told this family member “please take it out and put it in your car so you will take it back home when you go”. That family member answered “but it will go off in the car” and I answered “well I’m sorry, but we asked few times not to bring anything that has nuts or nuts traces and I will not put it in my fridge”. Well – that incident helped. And this family member doesn’t bring any more nut foods into our home.
2) The second reason is your child – your child, once stepping out of his home, is surrounded by NO! “No we can’t buy this ice-cream – it has nuts” “no don’t touch it, it might have nuts” “no, we don’t know what it’s made off” etc. so let your child FEEL GOOD in his own home. Let him go to the fridge, the candy draw or wherever you store food, and take it freely without having to ask you if it’s ok. It is mainly because your child is a CHILD, and it’s harder for him/her to accept. Your child goes through a lot of bad and sad feeling when he/she is watching other kids eating whatever – when he/she can’t. So at least at his home – he doesn’t have to feel bad or sad.
