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I understand the precautions that are being taken, but there are so many different allergies, why is that only children with peanut/nut allergies are been catered to?
My friend has a severe allergy to mango. She can't eat it, or she can't have it touch her. She can't even use products like mango lip balm, or scents, etc, etc. Her face and body start to swell and her airway begins to close off as soon as she touces mango. She had a reaction a few months ago because she thought she was eating an apple sauce snack but she didn't read the label carefully and it contained mango. Her face swelled up, her eyes closed shut (couldn't see at all) and had trouble breathing. Luckily she made it to the hospital on time.
Now what if she were a young girl in elementary school? Would they tell students not to bring mango lip balm to school, or waer a mango scent spray? No, they wouldn't.
I also had a teacher who was allergic to perfum and the first day of class she asked us not to wear perfume or cologne to class. Luckily, it wasn't a bad allergy (she just sneezed a lot), but what would she do if it was severe allergy. Would the school have made concessions for her. Probably not.
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