Potential Client With Allergy

[Unregistered]

What about a child with celiac disease? My cousin recently found her daughter has it and she goes to a public school, what accommodations do they have to let her have?

[hwichlaz]

What about a child with celiac disease? My cousin recently found her daughter has it and she goes to a public school, what accommodations do they have to let her have?

They have to provide an appropriate school lunch for her.

Celiac's kids have to ingest their allergen to be effected.

[LysesKids]

They have to provide an appropriate school lunch for her.

Celiac's kids have to ingest their allergen to be effected.

Exactly... that child can bring a packed lunch if mom & dad aren't happy with the school lunch choice; I explain to parents because of my Gluten issues & the fact I have a Celiac child that I care for, that nut based flours are often used for cooking & I cannot guarantee that my home can be nut free; Peanut free yes, nut free nope. And I do have a Peanut allergic child here, but it's an ingestion issue, not contact or in the air.

[hwichlaz]

Exactly... that child can bring a packed lunch if mom & dad aren't happy with the school lunch choice; I explain to parents because of my Gluten issues & the fact I have a Celiac child that I care for, that nut based flours are often used for cooking & I cannot guarantee that my home can be nut free; Peanut free yes, nut free nope. And I do have a Peanut allergic child here, but it's an ingestion issue, not contact or in the air.

Schools don't use anything expensive. Their gulten free items are made with rice flour and/or cornstarch.

[LysesKids]

Schools don't use anything expensive. Their gulten free items are made with rice flour and/or cornstarch.

My cooked/baked items require more than just rice flour otherwise biscuits and other goods just won't rise properly, plus I love my nutty stuff even if it is peanut free

[hwichlaz]

My cooked/baked items require more than just rice flour otherwise biscuits and other goods just won't rise properly, plus I love my nutty stuff even if it is peanut free

I just use pamela's mix. It's GF, DF, and no nuts, but they do process tree nuts in their facility so not allergen safe. Bob's Red Mill has some great GF,DF, NF mixes. It's all just different grain flours, mostly sprouted, and sorghum and starches.

[Unregistered]

She's not required to disclose. Anything you have in your policies that state she can be termed for not divulging or omitting or answering your questions without divulging means nothing to the ADA. A parent can enroll a child with AIDS and not divulge.

Your way may deter some but the ones who have been to the rodeo many times know they don't have to tell and once they get in you must accommodate.

Wow. That is incredibly disappointing.

For future reference what in the world is a provider supposed to do if a parents enrolls first and then says after that their child has serious allergies.

[Meeko]

I personally detest peanut butter, but the rest of my family are addicted to it. Peanut butter, peanuts in cans, peanut butter candy, peanut butter cookies, peanut butter cereal etc etc etc.

I make sure that incoming families know I am not peanut free and never will be. This is MY home and MY family comes first. I will never tell my family they can't have their favorite thing. Parents can take it or leave it. There are plenty of daycares willing to work with allergies. I am not one of them.

[Mom2Two]

I would do a very short interview and tell her you are interviewing multiple families over the next few weeks. Let her know you will be making a decision in three to four weeks. If she hasn't heard from you within a month then she will know another family was chosen.

I wouldn't discuss the allergies too much. Just do your normal interviewing. If she brings it up, listen to her carefully and then move on to the next subject.

You are lucky she told you in advance. Once the allergy parents find out they can't even get interviews they wait until they have enrolled, paid for the slot, and the kid is ready to start to pop it on the provider. That's way more difficult to navigate.

I'm not sure what parent with an anaphylactic child would want them in attendance without the provider knowing even for a short time. Or do you mean that they'd interview, get accepted, then inform the provider before the first day of attendance?

[Mom2Two]

So really, it's not a great idea for any daycare to proclaim that they are nut free. Increasingly, the evidence is that the food allergy epidemic is related to kids who are not exposed to the food in infancy, who have excema, then who get exposed a bit older.

I follow the research but not super hard, but it seems like that's where the research is at right now.

Israel has one of the highest rates of peanut consumption plus very little peanut allergy. They routinely give infants peanut puffs. See "bamba" for sale on Amazon.

For us...dd is anaphylactic to tree nuts, coconut, and seeds like sunflower and seseme. I wouldn't take a kid with peanut allergy, because it's the only nut dd can eat!