Nut allergy question and advice

[Lee-Bee]

How difficult! I personally would not take on a child with a severe allergy because we are not going to stop having peanuts in our home etc., so I cannot provide a safe environment. It really sucks that this child is settled in your care prior to the allergy suspicion.

Make sure you are very clear that peanuts are eaten in the home and that the child will be exposed to the peanuts. Whether you continue care is really up to you. It is hard to term a child especially when it is not yet determined. But, the child needs to be safe.

I personally believe that children with severe allergies are best in a centre based daycare or at home with a nanny where exposure can be control, or where there are other adults present should the child have a severe reaction.

If you term explain to the mom that should the child need to use the epi-pen you need to call an ambulance and send her child off with OUT you or anyone else. Meaning you need to stay with your other children and her child goes off in an ambulance with just the paramedics. That may put things in perspective for her to realize why you are terming.