Daycare with allergies

[greencrayon]

Do you supply all your own food?

[water*drop]

DD was MSPI until she was 17-18 months. We did supply all of her food, although our center offered to give us their recipes and take pictures of the ingredient lists of everything if we wanted to just send stuff to supplement their menu. That sounded like a pain for everybody involved, so we opted to just send everything. Licensing required us to have a note from the doctor on her medical form saying that we were to provide the food, which was NBD.

[ringstrue]

No they are nut free. I guess if there was a wheat or dairy allergy we would supply alternatives tho.

[meij]

My DD has a peanut allergy and the daycare was nut free so I felt comfortable with her eating lunch there. (I also worked there) If I hadn't worked there I might have pulled her because while they said they were peanut free, they allowed homemade Treats and kids brought their own breakfast (they didn't provide it for free, so most kids brought their own.) No one was supposed to bring food with nuts but they did all the time-I was taking away nut granola bars and even bags of peanuts all the time.

What allergies are you dealing with?

[greencrayon]

A has an egg allery. So pancakes, waffles, French toast sticks, noodles, etc. Sometimes there is stuff on the menu like sweet potato fries that are sometimes professed in a facility with eggs.

[cricketwife]

Everyone supplies their on food at our daycare. Their is a child with an egg allergy ain the class and we are asked not to send eggs -- we can send things with egg in them but they ask us not to send things that are virtually just egg --scrambled, hard boiled eggs, quiche, etc.

[Deleted]

We did at the center. DS had milk, nut and egg allergies. It seemed like everything on the menu had either milk or egg so it was just easier. However, we left at 11 months and he was barely eating more than pouches at that point.

We are at an at home now and she buys food he can have. I occasionally send sunbutter for the class since it's more expensive than regular PB. We also send soy milk as does another little girl with milk allergies.

[litasail]

Jan 26, 2015 18:38:11 GMT -5 greencrayon said:

A has an egg allery. So pancakes, waffles, French toast sticks, noodles, etc. Sometimes there is stuff on the menu like sweet potato fries that are sometimes professed in a facility with eggs.

My DS also has an egg allergy. We asked for ingredients lists for all the things that we think have a chance of having egg. They gave them to us, we confirmed which ones do, and when those come up on the menu we send other stuff.

They tend to repeat food a lot, so it's not that difficult at all.

[luckyno7]

We have an egg and peanut allergy. The daycares he went to were peanut free and had other kids with same allergies. I had many daycares turn us down because of his allergies. That was fine with me because if you aren't comfortable with it I don't want my kid there.

[JayhawkGirl]

DS didn't tolerate cow's milk until about 18 mos and we chose to not do fruit juice, so we were given the monthly menu and crossed out what he couldn't have. There was always something he could eat and he had breast milk or water to drink.

We did have two instances of substitute teachers giving him yogurt. His reaction was pretty quick (excema flares on his thighs and backs of his arms) and we hated that. If his were an anaphylactic reaction I likely would have sent his food on days the menu didn't work for us.

[Deleted]

Yes, I Did. My daycare didn't provide meals but they did provide milk and snacks. Even some snacks that would often be ok, like cheerios for example are not ALWAYS ok for J And since they are often switching brands depending on price I had no way to guarantee it would be safe for him.

I would bring in snacks for him that they would leave in their cupboards. I always just labeled them. Other snacks like fruit I would send with his lunch each day. I also sent in his milk every day.

j has very severe egg and dairy allergies and moderate peanut and chickpea so it was just easier for me to send in the food. I was more comfortable with having the burden of ensuring food was safe to be on myself rather than daycare.

[elcjet]

In short, yes.  I bring all of DD's snacks and meals, and I also provide her own playdough and art supplies since they can be contaminated with gluten.  (She has a gluten intolerance along with a skin reaction when she comes in contact with it)  Daycare is very good about cleaning eating surfaces and changing gloves.......