Airborne allergy question

[Kayda's Mom]

My neighbor and I each have 10 year old daughters. Her DD goes to a different school than mine. Most schools have a peanut free policy. Her DD came home from school saying that there is a new student in Grade 5 who is allergic to milk, mustard and a bunch of other things I can't remember right now. A letter has been sent home telling parents not to put mustard on sandwiches or send kids with milk (where this leaves the milk program in the school I don't know).
People have allergies such as myself but I am fine as long as I don't ingest those things.
My question is that I have never heard of anybody who is allergic to milk where milk cannot even be around. Has anybody else?

[4Blessings]

Why ask?

If the child's doctor has determined that her reaction history indicates that she needs to avoid milk than so be it.
It isn't up to anyone else to question the accomodations needed to keep her safe.

Insert any other disablility. Should strangers be entitled to question the steps necessary to keep the child safe?

Milk allergies can be just as deadly as many other allergies can be. Spilled milk can be a concern for those who are allergic.

To answer the question, yes, individuals can have allergic reactions to touch and/or inhalation.

Sorry to be snarky but this topic hits close to home.

[4Blessings]

Peanut, not milk allergy but a very recent example of an airborne reaction in a teen...
http://www.dailybreeze.com/ci_10514484

[Kayda's Mom]

Why ask?? I understand the peanut allergy airborne thing. But myself and everyone else I have spoken to has never heard of a milk one. That is why I was asking...to try and understand it. There is no reason to be snarky. I didn't come here for an arguement.
So since you seem to know...
does that inlude milk products?
Honestly...how does one leave the house if allergies are so severe? That would mean no restaurants, no grocery stores, etc. Guess that kid will never go to any birthday parties etc. Enlighten me.
I feel sorry for this kid because there is a kid in my daughter's grade that has the peanut allergy and the Mom has made it a soapbox issue...her daughter hardly has any friends and the mother wonders why.

[lil_miss_understood]

Originally Posted by Kayda's Mom

Why ask?? I understand the peanut allergy airborne thing. But myself and everyone else I have spoken to has never heard of a milk one. That is why I was asking...to try and understand it. There is no reason to be snarky. I didn't come here for an arguement.
So since you seem to know...
does that inlude milk products?
Honestly...how does one leave the house if allergies are so severe? That would mean no restaurants, no grocery stores, etc. Guess that kid will never go to any birthday parties etc. Enlighten me.
I feel sorry for this kid because there is a kid in my daughter's grade that has the peanut allergy and the Mom has made it a soapbox issue...her daughter hardly has any friends and the mother wonders why.

You're right. It does mean no restaurants, no grocery stores, no friend's houses, no birthday parties, no sneaking anything behind mom's back if she wants to LIVE... unless of course the mom does what some parents do taking their children into those situations and wipes down EVERYTHING their child comes into contact with and brings food that's safe for her child to any birthday they attend. Yes, her mother has made it a soapbox issue, her daughter's LIFE depends on it because people think it's "not a big deal as long as she doesn't eat it".

Severe airborne reactions primarily occur in the following situations:

* You get a huge dose all at once. For example, if you have a severe wheat allergy and walk into a bakery where hundreds of loaves of bread are being made, this huge single dose of allergen may trigger a severe reaction even if you immediately exit.

I think a lunch room would constitute that.
You came into an allergy forum basically asking "Why should I abide by these rules?" when the rules are in place to protect a child's life. There are mothers here with children who do have allergies THAT BAD, so yes, they WILL be snarky about it. They're not trying to argue either. They just really don't appreciate it when a child's allergies are made light of and are pretty sick of being told to "get off their soapbox" when they're trying to protect their kids' lives.
Does the ban include milk products? I would assume so, but your best bet is likely to call the school and ask.

ETA: If you want to know if it can be airborne, ask yourself: can you smell it? If you can smell it, there are airborne particles. Personally, I can smell milk.

[lil_miss_understood]

http://blogs.ipona.com/chris/archive...6/07/1217.aspx

At the bottom is a comment from a mother whose daughter has an airborne allergy to milk.

[lil_miss_understood]

More proof that milk can be airborne:
http://www.oukosher.org/index.php/consumer/alerts/P70/
about halfway down, the Blue Bunny Froz Fruit alert.

http://www.littlemissbrightside.com/?p=84
Comment #8 is from a mom named Amy with another "airborne milk" allergic child.

[Kayda's Mom]

Originally Posted by JacquelineR

Yes, her mother has made it a soapbox issue, her daughter's LIFE depends on it because people think it's "not a big deal as long as she doesn't eat it".


I think a lunch room would constitute that.
You came into an allergy forum basically asking "Why should I abide by these rules?" when the rules are in place to protect a child's life. There are mothers here with children who do have allergies THAT BAD, so yes, they WILL be snarky about it. They're not trying to argue either. They just really don't appreciate it when a child's allergies are made light of and are pretty sick of being told to "get off their soapbox" when they're trying to protect their kids' lives.
Does the ban include milk products? I would assume so, but your best bet is likely to call the school and ask.

ETA: If you want to know if it can be airborne, ask yourself: can you smell it? If you can smell it, there are airborne particles. Personally, I can smell milk.

I might be able to smell milk if I stuck my nose in it.

I haven't made light of allergies and I wasn't asking why I should abide by the rules. I was asking because I have never heard of such a thing. I asked to be educated and I got nothing but hot headed responses. You can protect your child's life by getting off the soapbox and educating people calmly and passing on information. I mentioned that other mother because she has made her child's life miserable to the point where her daughter doesn't have any friends...to the point now where this mother calls up parents to ask them why their kid doesn't want anything to do with her daughter.
Thanks for you time. I didn't get anywhere with my question so I will seek information elsewhere.

[lil_miss_understood]

Originally Posted by Kayda's Mom

I might be able to smell milk if I stuck my nose in it.

I haven't made light of allergies and I wasn't asking why I should abide by the rules. I was asking because I have never heard of such a thing. I asked to be educated and I got nothing but hot headed responses. You can protect your child's life by getting off the soapbox and educating people calmly and passing on information. I mentioned that other mother because she has made her child's life miserable to the point where her daughter doesn't have any friends...to the point now where this mother calls up parents to ask them why their kid doesn't want anything to do with her daughter.
Thanks for you time. I didn't get anywhere with my question so I will seek information elsewhere.

I'm really sorry that you took my response to be "hot headed". I don't know what you expected when you declared a mother of an allergic child to be "on a soapbox".
I'm sorry that the links I posted seem to have been absolutely meaningless and useless to you.
It's hard to have friends when you can't go to other people's houses because they eat stuff that'll kill you.

ETA: I think the problem is that most of us have had other parents say "I've never heard of that." and what they've meant (displayed by actions) is "I've never heard of that so I don't believe you and I'm not going to inconvenience myself just because you say it's so."

[changingseasons]

Sorry you have been put off by the responses. I know it can be frustrating going into a new forum and getting jumped on because of your question.

I think what put people off is that your original question kind of sounded like you were doubting it was true that people could have that serious of an allergy, like maybe they just made it up or something. Allergy moms just get really frustrated with this, because so few people really know anything about allergies... they just don't understand how serious they can be. And they are constantly getting "oh, a little won't hurt" or "it can't really be THAT serious" in response to their LO's allergies. Imagine having to be so aware of everything around you every second of the day, because one wrong move by an innocently ignorant stranger could kill your child!

It's also a little concerning that you mention that mom making her child's life "miserable to the point where her daughter doesn't have any friends." You make it sound as if the mom is to blame, when in reality she is probably just trying to keep her child alive. What would you have her do instead?

It's good that you're asking questions. I hope you can stick around and learn more about allergies. It's something that people really need to be educated about.

[Mama Mko]

My son is very allergic to milk, to the point where if someone is cooking it (or cheese) and he is around, he starts coughing and getting itchy. He has never had a life-threatening reaction (he has always been able to breathe and his lips never swell) but it is still scary. He is very sensitive to getting any residue on his hands. Like when we went to the playground and he went down the slide and came out the other end with hives on his legs. It is nervewracking and scary.

I see the allergist on Wednesday. We'll see what he says. Right now we administer Benadryl when his hives don't go away when washed with soap and water. We were planning to homeschool anyway, but I can't even imagine the terror parents feel when they send their allergic children to school.

[moon-dance]

airborne milk allergy

My teenage daughter is allergic to milk and has been since birth. She's never had a problem with it being airborne and although she doesn't care for the smell of cheese, she can be in a cheese store without reaction. We have dairy products in the same fridge her food is in. However, if she is ingests milk, she can go into anaphylactic shock. But she can sit at the same table as someone eating dairy (and has) without any reaction.

I'm not a physician and don't know everything but I am a chemist and can tell you that the "smell" of milk or cheese does not contain the protein that causes my daughter to have an allergic reaction. She would, however, have an allergic reaction if say powdered milk was in the air or there was a large concentration of boiled milk in the air. But cold milk in a container would not likely be aerosolized in the air.

Your friend's child may likely be allergic to something else or this could be an anxiety reaction. When my daughter was first dealing with her allergies, she went through a period when she was afraid to eat everything. She has since learned how to deal with the anxiety of her allergies.