Please verify your email address to receive email notifications.

Enter your email address

We have sent you a verification email. Please check your inbox and spam folder.

Unable to send verification, please refresh and try again later.

  • Q&A with Australian Health Practitioners

    Help with my son's peanut allergies?

    Related Topics
    Allergy Food Allergies
    My son is HIGHLY allergic to peanuts. As a parent I obviously avoid packing him anything with nuts, but lots of kids at school eat peanut butter sandwiches. He begins school next week. What can I do?
    answer this question

  • Find a professional to answer your question

  • 1

    Thanks

    Jennie Rogers nee Studdert

    Registered Nurse

    I have been a paediatric registered nurse for over twenty years. I am trained asthma educator, early childhood nurse and currently work in the area … View Profile

    When enrolling your son in school, you must complete the healthcare assessment form. If you live in NSW, the NSW Anaphylaxis Training programme is a programme which has been set up to work with all schools across NSW to provide education and training to schools in this area. Once you have completed the health care form, the school will provide you with further forms that require completion by yourself and also by your treating doctor. If you have not seen a paediatric allergy specialist, it is vital you make an appointment as soon as possible to ensure your child's allergy is assessed and that you have the right information for the shcool. It is also vital that your son is taught that he does not share other peoples food, this should have started from the time your childs allergy was first diagnosed. The school will have there own proceudres in place. For further information, please see the ASCIA website. 

    Reply to this post
     · 
    Report
    Reply to this post

    You must be a Health Professional to reply to this post. to your account or now (it's free).

answer this question

You must be a Health Professional to answer this question. Log in or Sign up .

You may also like these related questions

Related Fact Sheets
Related Questions

Empowering Australians to make better health choices