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School Protects Students With Food Allergies

POSTED: Thursday, September 6, 2007
UPDATED: 3:36 pm CDT September 7, 2007

One bite of a wrong food can prove fatal for some children, so a local school has taken measures to protect its students from food allergies, KPRC Local 2, Your Education Station, reported Thursday.

Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are a popular lunchroom item.

But for Davis Palmie, finding peanut butter is his lunch could be fatal.

"My throat swells up. It almost stops (my) breathing," Palmie said.

Palmie has a severe allergy to peanuts. And at Rummel Creek Elementary School, he's not alone.

"We had to pretty much try to make the entire school peanut safe," school nurse Karen Schroeter said.

Rummel Creek has found a way to deal with the rise in food allergies with teacher training and peanut-free classrooms.

It also has plenty of EpiPens on standby in case a student has an allergic reaction.

"It goes right through clothing. Hold it for about 10 seconds take it off and massage the area so the medicine can goes in. Immediately after we give this, we call 911 because of the possibility the child will have another allergic reaction within a few hours," Schroeter said.

There are safety measures in place in the cafeteria. A table lined with yellow tape is a peanut-free zone. Plus, all students in the cafeteria who eat nuts or peanuts get a wet-nap to wipe their hands to ensure that no trace of peanuts is left behind.

"We want parents to feel that their children are safe when they come to school, so we do everything we can to help them with any particular special health needs that they have," Schroeter said.

Rummel Creek has nearly 50 students with some type of food allergy.

The Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN) is hosting a walk on Saturday to help find a cure for food allergies.

The information is listed below.

WALK FOR FOOD ALLERGY: MOVING TOWARD A CURE
  • Saturday, Sept. 8
  • 9 a.m. walk-day registration; 10 a.m. start; 11 a.m. after-walk carnival
  • Begins at Sam Houston Park
  • Route: 2.5 miles along Allan Parkway
  • Benefits Food
  • KPRC Local 2 anchor Dominique Sachse is honorary chair
  • To register or volunteer, visit www.foodallergywalk.org.

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