Warn all teachers about potential peanuts in birdseed!

DD had a contact reaction to birdseed. Her hands and face had hives on them. So thanks for the reminder!

Can anyone add anything else that we should warn school about other than the birdseed? I would like to give school a list of things other than food to be aware of?

Thanks,

Theresa

I know some schools do projects with cereals and pastas.

I wouldn't think that pastas would be too much of a risk but cereals may.

I know my son's kindergarten will do a project with Apple Jacks. They are also doing some type of "tasting" class when they cover the senses. I will have to review with them prior to that.

Last year we ran into projects that other classes in the school did. These were art projects the kids did at home. They decorated snowmen using anything they wanted, food included.

So Emily was walking down the hallway and pointed up at a picture and told her teacher there was a peanut butter cup on it.

Eye opener for all of us.

Quote:Originally posted by theresaa:
[b]Can anyone add anything else that we should warn school about other than the birdseed? I would like to give school a list of things other than food to be aware of?

Thanks,

Theresa[/b]

I think it's important to remind them to watch out for the containers they use. Pre-diagnosis, my family used to use big jellybean containers from Costco to store Legos and all sorts of things. They're Jelly Belly jelly beans, which are "may contains", so we had to throw out all those toys (wasn't worth my time to scrub all of those items individually, and I still would have been nervous).