Lo scolaretto di cinque anni è morto dopo “esposizione accidentale alla proteina del latte di mucca”
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/five-year-old-schoolboy-died-after-accidental-exposure-to-cows-milk-protein/
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Lo scolaretto di cinque anni è morto dopo “esposizione accidentale alla proteina del latte di mucca”
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/five-year-old-schoolboy-died-after-accidental-exposure-to-cows-milk-protein/
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For once everything here sounds reasonable. The death really was just an unfortunate accident, and the parents are asking that schools be required to think more about how they plan for, train for, and respond to allergies.
Allergies are terrifying, and as a nation we should be better equipped to deal with them.
44% of people in the UK have an allergy with half of those having more than one to deal with, so it’s not exactly a minority issue. ([source](https://www.allergyuk.org/about-allergy/statistics-and-figures/))
I’ve been in hospital where due to outsourcing of catering I’ve been unable to be given any food because they cannot gaurantee for cross contaimination or allergens. If it wasn’t for relatives and friends bringing me allergy safe food when I’ve been a patient, I’d have been forced to starve at the request of the doctors to avoid a risk of killing me.
> We demand change. We call on this government to protect our children with Benedict’s Law, making it mandatory to have an allergy policy in every school, staff allergy training including understanding allergies, how to manage them and identify signs of a reaction, and respond quickly in an emergency, and spare adrenaline allergy pens in every school.
> “Proper oversight. Real accountability. Immediate action. We owe that to every child.
That honestly seems pretty reasonable and I’m surprised it’s not mandatory already.
That said, we already ask so much of our teachers, I can’t imagine the extra strain having a severely allergic child in your class would do to a teacher’s workload and stress levels.
Schools are already really strict with allergies. However, adrenaline allergy pens should be a must.
thats awful but man, cows milk is so commonly used in things, having that bad an allergy to it is surely very uncommon, surely he was going to come across it in some sort of food somewhere at some point. poor kid.
I think it would be unmanageable. My wife works in education and already had to deal with administering epi pens when dealing with severe reactions. Left her with something like PTSD.. ON top of that there are kids with behavioral challenges (mildl ones). Then there were a case (thankfully not in her class) where a kid brought epi pen and used it on another kid – ” they were playing”.
that is not what she really signed up for and feels extremely uncomfortable that something can happen to the kids while she is in charge of them. No matter how many times you tell parents and kids that “we are nut free school” – they still bring something.
They have lists of kids that needs to be watched out – but that only makes her double worried
I believe these kids (with a risk of severe reaction) have to be grouped and sent to special schools which would be properly equipped (some sterile environments) for these kind of challenges. Making teachers also experts in first aid, mental health, allergies and all sorts of other thing is just unsustainable.