School bans nuts because of one student's allergy

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School Goes Nut-Free For One Student
Child's Allergy Is Life-Threatening

BANGOR, Maine -- There will be no more peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches or franks and beans at one school district in Maine.

The lunch menu is being changed for the safety of a highly allergic child.

The Miller School in Waldoboro also told parents not to send children to school with anything containing peanuts, sunflower seeds, poppy seeds, sesame seeds or legumes such as dried peas and beans.

Several students at the school are allergic to those foods, but one child's sensitivity is life-threatening.

The superintendent said the child could have a severe reaction simply by smelling the breath of someone who has eaten one of those foods.

An allergy specialist at Eastern Maine Medical Center said such allergies are on the rise because of an increasingly nut-rich American diet.




The local news website I got this from has a survey on whether people think this is fair, and I was surprised to see that an overwhelming majority said it's not. So I'm just curious to see what other GCers think about this. Do you think it's fair to ban nuts, beans, etc. because of a single student? I would say that it's not... but if it's true that the child could have a severe reaction to just smelling the breath of someone that has eaten them, then I would say yes it is fair.