Anaphylactic shock, Food Sensitivities, and a Numbers Game

Anaphylactic Shock and Allergies:

Its my humble opinion, that one who goes into Anaphylactic Shock should probably avoid at all cost the offending food and NOT make exceptions. Surprising as it may seem, some parents do allow their child to have a little peanut treat, but only rarely. This in my view, is dangerous. One teenager died because she kissed her boyfriend. Her boyfriend forgot that he had ate something with peanuts earlier. Life is too valuable to worry about "Oh, my child feels so left out!" I don't care how left out your child feels, allowing suicide is idiotic! The teenagers were not purposefully suicidal. Her boyfriend was usually very careful, as was she. He supported her in her allergy. Depending on what foods cause you to go into shock it may be best to make everything from scratch. I would definately carry a Epi-pen at all times without failure, despite its need for refrigeration. The teen's story, only illustrates who important this is. It is a policy in almost all schools that any medical item that a student requires that is a drug or needle only be available IN the Nurses office. I would argue that in the case of an Epi-Pen, the Epi-Pen should be carried ON the Student at ALL times. Portable lunch bags with ice packs do work. Its fine to have a teacher administer the drug, but sometimes even this isn't fast enough.