How do you handle food allergies in your daycare? Do you require a note from the childs doctor or do you take the parents word for it? Is it even legal to require a doctors note for food allergies? Do you not serve the allergic item at all? Or do you just not serve it to that particular child?
I ask because at the center we had a child who was "allergic" to chocolate, yet would come in eating chocolate items regularly. For his birthday his parents sent in chocolate cupcakes. I asked the parents what they would like me to serve their child while the other children were eating cupcakes. They looked shocked that I wouldn't give him a chocolate cupcake-I told them they could either change the allergy information on his card, or take the cupcakes home-but that I would not give their child an item that they had told us he was allergic to. In the end they refused to change his card and I refused to serve the cupcakes (cause I didn't want him to be the only kid eating something different on his birthday. I did go get vanilla Oreo's and we had those for his birthday snack).
Personally I would like to have a doctors note or some kind of documentation regarding a childs food allergy but I'm not sure if I can.
That being said, if a parent hands me an epi-pen jr for a peanut allergy I can be pretty sure it's a legitimate allergy.
I ask because at the center we had a child who was "allergic" to chocolate, yet would come in eating chocolate items regularly. For his birthday his parents sent in chocolate cupcakes. I asked the parents what they would like me to serve their child while the other children were eating cupcakes. They looked shocked that I wouldn't give him a chocolate cupcake-I told them they could either change the allergy information on his card, or take the cupcakes home-but that I would not give their child an item that they had told us he was allergic to. In the end they refused to change his card and I refused to serve the cupcakes (cause I didn't want him to be the only kid eating something different on his birthday. I did go get vanilla Oreo's and we had those for his birthday snack).
Personally I would like to have a doctors note or some kind of documentation regarding a childs food allergy but I'm not sure if I can.
That being said, if a parent hands me an epi-pen jr for a peanut allergy I can be pretty sure it's a legitimate allergy.
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