http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/04/health/virginia-allergy-death/index.html?hpt=hp_t3 Mom says she filled out all the forms and brought meds to school at the start of the school year. She says the school rejected the meds because they had their own stash. School says they don't have a stash and didn't say that. He said, she said. Totally preventable. :cry:
That is so sad and completely avoidable. My sweet little girl that I nanny is allergic to peanuts and I can't imagine ever losing her to a reaction. I do worry about her being in day care and in the nursery at church. I make sure my daughter and myself double check everything. Prayers for this family.
What a horrible experience for everyone involved. How ever she got the peanut doesn't really matter. The thing is I drive school buses and I have children on my bus with horrible peanut allergies, all they have to do is smell it. Then if they start a reaction, I have to some way find a epi pen in their back pack and administer it. Good grief it can be hard with up to 60 extra children around and at the same time calling dispatch for help. Thank God I haven't had to do it. But, it does scare me every day thinking of what could happen.
Which is exactly why buses now-a-days need an aide on them, but that isn't going to happen! By the time you get the bus pulled over to where you can stop and search for the epi-pen, it may already be too late.
I teach first aid, and I have taught teachers that say they have no idea how to use an epi-pen. Even though they have had kids in their class who carry them. Very scarey.
