Mom Demands School Go Peanut-Free For Allergic Child

[MADem]

215. The NYT article was about complex, multiple allergies, not just peanut.

And -- like it or not -- desensitization is becoming the "go to" therapy. For just peanuts, five thousand bucks, and insurance is covering it, too:

http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/health/treating-peanut-allergies-in-kids#.UXrJIrWG2So

You might want to go talk to those doctors again--this research is new, and this treatment is new, too, having only migrated into the clinical setting in the last month or two.

The field of people who do not benefit is "small." This works for most, and if you don't try, you don't fix the problem.

I should think the FIRST thing a parent would do is opt for treatment, rather than demand accommodations.

The 'small' group of people who can't be fixed need to adjust their lifestyles for their own safety. People in wheelchairs don't expect to climb Mt. Everest, either. Life sucks sometimes, and people have to adjust--it's unreasonable to demand that schools be sterilized and every human entering the school subject themselves to an onerous protocol for one or two people. It's cheaper for the school district to just pay for a "distance learning" program and let the child's parents take control of the child's environment.