1. Due to the severe peanut allergy of a first grade girl, students of Edgewater Elementary are required to wash their hands before entering their classroom in the morning and after lunch. They were also told that they had to rinse out their mouths after each meal. The teachers surpervising the handwashing and mouthrinsing were required to wipe down the desks continuously with Clorox wipes. All peanut products are banned at the school and no outside food is allowed to be brought into school holiday parties. In addition, a peanut sniffing dog was brought in two weeks ago. Rumors that childrens mouths were being wiped with disinfectant were quickly dispelled.
2. Parents, completely exasperated, have been protesting outside the school.
3. District spokeswoman Nancy Wait of Volusia County Schools has said that the school is obligated to follow guidelines under the Federal Disabilities Act. We have moved so far beyond isolating children with disabilities, she says. We are required to provide her with an education and to make accommodations for her disability, she told ParentDish.
4. the recent move by the school to enforce such a strict regimen have embittered parents who decided enough was enough and took to the streets outside the school in protest.
5. No one wants any harm to come to this first grader. Through no fault of her own, she had acquired this food allergy. But what are the chances of peanut allergy death of actually occurring?
6. 150-200 were the initial numbers that kept reoccurring in my research of food allergy deaths. But upon reading Meredith Broussards research in her article, Food Allergy Deaths: Less Common Than You Think in the Huffington Post, I discovered that the 150-200 death estimate comes from the media resource kit of the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network, a lobbying and educational group headed by a former marketing executive at Dey Pharmaceuticals. Dey Pharmaceuticals is the maker of the EpiPen adrenaline injector, a device that millions of food-allergic patients keep on hand in case of emergency.
7. Data on food allergy deaths from the Center for Disease Control (CDC). Theyve been tracking food allergy deaths since 1998, but this number isnt publicly available in CDC databases because it is statistically insignificant. The CDC press office which revealed something very surprising. Eleven out of 2.5 million deaths were from food allergies in 2005, the last year for which this data is available. Thats eleven deaths from food allergies in total.
a. More deaths had resulted from lawnmowing accidents. An estimated 90 -100 people die from bee stings (and this number is actually underreported due to mistaken diagnoses as heart attacks, sun strokes or other causes). But we dont tell people not to mow their lawns or refrain from going outdoors.
8. Using questionable data, and the 'crisis spin,' rules, regulations, requirements are added, what de Tocqueville called 'soft despotism,' and described as "an immense, tutelary power, which takes sole charge of assuring their enjoyment and of watching over their fate and aims to "relieve them entirely of the trouble of thinking and of the effort associated with living. How? "... it covers its surface with a network of petty regulationscomplicated, minute, and uniform..."
9. And not to belittle the eleven people that die each year from food allergies, they are the ones that need to take the proper precautions, not the rest of the 311,046,781 people in this country.
10. "New from Allergy Haven. Store your EpiPen, Benadryl and other emergency necessities in this versatile pack. Features zipper closure and velcro straps that can attach to a belt, purse or school backpack. Emergency Card also included. Measures: 4" x 7.5"
EPI Pen Strap Pack Basic Epipen Carrier
2. Parents, completely exasperated, have been protesting outside the school.
3. District spokeswoman Nancy Wait of Volusia County Schools has said that the school is obligated to follow guidelines under the Federal Disabilities Act. We have moved so far beyond isolating children with disabilities, she says. We are required to provide her with an education and to make accommodations for her disability, she told ParentDish.
4. the recent move by the school to enforce such a strict regimen have embittered parents who decided enough was enough and took to the streets outside the school in protest.
5. No one wants any harm to come to this first grader. Through no fault of her own, she had acquired this food allergy. But what are the chances of peanut allergy death of actually occurring?
6. 150-200 were the initial numbers that kept reoccurring in my research of food allergy deaths. But upon reading Meredith Broussards research in her article, Food Allergy Deaths: Less Common Than You Think in the Huffington Post, I discovered that the 150-200 death estimate comes from the media resource kit of the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network, a lobbying and educational group headed by a former marketing executive at Dey Pharmaceuticals. Dey Pharmaceuticals is the maker of the EpiPen adrenaline injector, a device that millions of food-allergic patients keep on hand in case of emergency.
7. Data on food allergy deaths from the Center for Disease Control (CDC). Theyve been tracking food allergy deaths since 1998, but this number isnt publicly available in CDC databases because it is statistically insignificant. The CDC press office which revealed something very surprising. Eleven out of 2.5 million deaths were from food allergies in 2005, the last year for which this data is available. Thats eleven deaths from food allergies in total.
a. More deaths had resulted from lawnmowing accidents. An estimated 90 -100 people die from bee stings (and this number is actually underreported due to mistaken diagnoses as heart attacks, sun strokes or other causes). But we dont tell people not to mow their lawns or refrain from going outdoors.
8. Using questionable data, and the 'crisis spin,' rules, regulations, requirements are added, what de Tocqueville called 'soft despotism,' and described as "an immense, tutelary power, which takes sole charge of assuring their enjoyment and of watching over their fate and aims to "relieve them entirely of the trouble of thinking and of the effort associated with living. How? "... it covers its surface with a network of petty regulationscomplicated, minute, and uniform..."
9. And not to belittle the eleven people that die each year from food allergies, they are the ones that need to take the proper precautions, not the rest of the 311,046,781 people in this country.
10. "New from Allergy Haven. Store your EpiPen, Benadryl and other emergency necessities in this versatile pack. Features zipper closure and velcro straps that can attach to a belt, purse or school backpack. Emergency Card also included. Measures: 4" x 7.5"
EPI Pen Strap Pack Basic Epipen Carrier
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