Question for a people with personal experience/knowledge of peanut allergies.?
My kids are having Halloween parties at school, and I'm decorating 27 cupcakes. For my youngest child's class, I'm doing these things called "Trick or Treat Cupcakes", and part of the decorations are m&ms. m&ms have a warning on the bag that they could contain peanuts (even though it's remote, and they're plain m&ms.)
A girl in my 5-year-old's class has a severe peanut allergy all the parents know about. Those cupcakes are decorated differently, with no peanut warnings.
How paranoid should I be? Can I box the cupcakes together, or should I go so far as to send them separately?
Answer:
my 6 y/o is allergic to peanuts badly. you shouldn't allow the contaminated cupcakes to get near the other one. You should in fact wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water after touching the others. The peanut oils stick to your hands and transfer to anything you touch. my daughter once got sick because I was putting peanuts that were still in their shells into a jar when it was time for her to have meds. I touched the meds and a few hours later she was puking and her throat had closed up.
The simplest way to go is to put all the cupcakes in the holder, and send the M&Ms in a seperate holder or container for each child to place on their own cake.or use gummy candy in its place to avoid the worry of peanut allergies all together.
no its ok to overreact. separte them, and mark on it peanut free. or you could go to the class and explain to the girl that this is safer and you did your best to try and not get peanuts around them. or go buy a treat bag. better safe then sorry.
You just have to make sure that the peanuts do not touch the other cupcakes... my nephew is allergic to penuts and like you said even the smell, causes allergic reaction... anything with peanut, anything cooked in peanut oil, causes him allergic reaction. I wouldn't mix e two.. Hope this helps..
I dont want to scare u but last yr around christmas my granny ate some fruit cake,,, she ended up in the hospital her throat closed up and she couldnt breath,,,3 days before christmas she passed away.. dr said it wasnt from the allergy itself but the strain since she was 92 she died of a heart attack. I dont know about the get near it part. Accidents happen so fast she was at a party with her church group and the lady that made the fruit cake didnt know she was allergic. Just to be on safe side, i would seperate them just incase they touched.
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