Stop serving and selling peanut products in the Wake County school system and make it a safer environment for all children with a life threatening nut allergy. Please switch to either Soy Nut butter or Sunflower butter.

Facts:
Peanut or tree nuts are the main culprits in food allergies that affect up to 8% of children under four years of age and 2% of adult Americans. Food allergies cause 30,000 anaphylactic reactions (a severe allergy reaction) per year resulting in 2000 hospitalizations and 200 deaths, according to the New England Journal of Medicine. With over 3 million people now allergic to peanuts, tree nuts or both.

Peanut allergy can be characterized by more severe symptoms, such as gastrointestinal, skin and respiratory symptoms, than other food allergies and by a high rate of symptoms on minimal contact. ("Clinical characteristics of peanut allergy," Clin. Exp. Allergy, 1997; "An evaluation of the sensitivity of subjects with peanut allergy to very low doses of peanut protein," J. Allergy Clin. Immunol., 1997)

Severe sufferers also may experience potentially life-threatening anaphylactic shock in response to ingestion of peanuts. Anaphylactic shock is an allergic reaction in which the release of histamine causes swelling, difficulty in breathing, heart failure, circulatory collapse, and sometimes death.





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