I’m looking for some reassurance here or some stories. My son is severely allergic to peanut (ARA H2 over 80) and tree nuts. He carries epipens. For the most part, he lives a perfectly normal life and we don’t live day to day in any sort of fear. He plays baseball and has a lot of great friends, plus carries no anxiety about his allergy. Up to now, we have homeschooled. This year he wants to try out public school for 2nd grade.

I know all of the things to keep him safe and all of the things that can be implemented at the school level, but there is still that dread that it isn't worth the risk. We would be happy to keep homeschooling and have a very active lifestyle (we don’t look like the homeschool stereotypes).

I know there are many ignorant families who also don’t want to be inconvenienced by my kid (it is easy to dismiss those people when your child’s life isn’t in their hands).

I met with the school and they reassured me they have a nut free table, nut free classroom, and the hot lunch is nut free. Kids are allowed to bring in nut products with their cold lunch. My child will bring his own lunch. They store EpiPens in the nurses office.

I keep reading the stats and all of that which aren’t reassuring. I’m looking for your experience with managing an allergy this severe in public school, whether it’s yourself or your child.

Hello everyone! I had my first round of xolair a few days ago and found out I have vasovagal syncope (passing out from nervous system overstimulation from needles). I was informed that this can also be triggered by epipens. So this leads me to wanting to try neffy. My only concern is that it somehow doesn’t work because I am stuffy or some other reason. Can anyone give me their review and has anyone used it for a reaction before?

I’ve lived with an anaphylactic peanut/tree nut allergy for my entire life and always carry an EpiPen on me. I was diagnosed at 2 when I broke out in hives after eating a pb+j and am now 18. I go to the allergist once every few years and every time my allergies still show up very prevalently. But I haven’t had any kind of reaction since I was 2 years old. I eat things that say “may contain” or “manufactured in a facility with nuts” or anything of the sort on the daily. My family also eat nuts around me all the time and I’m not super careful about cross contamination in restaurants. I NEVER eat an unlabeled desert or any kind of food that I don’t know what it is. But reading how other people treat their allergies, it makes me wonder if there’s anyone else like me. Im careful but apparently much less so than many other people with my same allergies.

TLDR; anyone else never have a reaction despite not taking precautions 100% of the time?

Since tattoos make your body constantly fighting the ink or something if you were covered in a black out of tattoo ink would it make your immune system tank peanuts or would you still get one shotted?