re: Is PB&J not allowed in school anymore?

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Nope. I forget about it every once in a while and ask the boys if they want pbj for lunch. Then they say they’re not allowed.

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If they want to use the girls’ bathroom they’ll probably let them, though.

Pretty sure my kid's school offers Uncrustables as an option every day.

Some schools have a ban due to allergy issues. This doesn't seem to be enforceable though. It would be pretty easy to make a peanut butter sandwich and claim that it is a substitute like Sunbutter, which is made from sunflower seeds or Wowbutter, which is a soy product. Unless the school sends the sandwich to a lab, the staff have no way of knowing if the spread is peanut butter or a substitute.

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That sh*t is scary as hell. Thought I was about to see my ex die from it. Dumb arse girl left her epipen at home because she wanted to carry her small purse She ended up in the hospital for a few days.

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Never seen it myself, but I can absolutely understand why school staff would not want to have to deal with something like this. Kids will definitely be learning something that day, but it won't be from the lesson plans.

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What boggles my mind is when I was a kid in the 70s & early 80s, things like a a peanut allergy were unheard of. Now it’s quite common. What’s changed??

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Seems to me that the increase in these sorts of allergies tied in pretty neatly with the belief that pregnant women and infants shouldn't eat things like nuts, eggs, and shellfish.

Why the sudden development of peanut allergies? You never even heard of a peanut allergy when I was growing up, and now it seems everybody either has a peanut allergy or know someone who does. What caused the sudden development of peanut allergies?

Just tell her it's plant based, vegan, organic butter.



Give it to your kid anyway. Screw them

So we have to ban peanut butter since some kids have an allergy? In that case, when do we ban grass since many kids are allergic to that?

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What’s changed??

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Greater knowledge of medical studies combined with an attitude of absurd overprotection.

Peanut allergies have always existed. But most people didn't really know much about them so they weren't hesitant in introducing peanut butter to their children at a very early age. Many allergists will tell you that if your child is exposed to different potential allergens early on their immune system does a good job of reacting and building resistance to those allergens. But then some parents got wind of studies showing a risk (albeit small) of severe allergic reactions to peanut butter and "abundance of caution" recommendations that peanuts not be introduced to children early in their lives. More and more parents heard the same thing and parents, being parents, wanted to avoid any risk to their child. So peanuts began being introduced later and later in a child's life.

The result? Without the early introduction that you and I had the children's' immune system did not develop the resistance to allergens that ours did. Basically, that zeal of overprotection created a much larger occurrence in peanut allergies than would have existed if parent just unknowingly introduced peanuts early like they had always done.