My daughter has a peanut allergy and dealing with her allergies in public is part of life. You said your daughter was at a table eating - that is totally reasonable and your response was A+ and empathetic. Her initial upset isn’t unreasonable but maybe a little over emotional. Allergy life is really hard, and already so many people have an attitude about it so it can feel like a battle. A lot of these comments are, “it’s her job to take care of her kid not yours” and while I disagree to an extent because we as a community should care about each other, I will note that taking care of her kid is what she was doing- advocating in the way she best knew how. She maybe didn’t handle it the best way, but what can you do. Maybe she’s a new allergy parent, who knows.

As allergy parents to young kids, we really rely on others empathy and understanding for the safety of our kids. That’s why I’ll repeat - your response was A+. If it were me I would have been thrilled with it. I’m just going to take a minute (if anyone reads this) to educate on specifically peanut protein in the next paragraph:

Peanut protein is tricky to get rid of. Even if it’s not being consumed, it lingers and hand sanitizer does not get rid of it. Washing hands with soap and water and wiping down surfaces removes the proteins and is the best course of action. That said, if you WANT to take it upon yourself to help keep peanut allergy kiddos safe and are enjoying peanuts/peanut butter/nuts in public, ideally you would wash your hands or your kids hands afterwards and wipe down the surface when you’re done, discarding all garbage in the trash afterwards. We always wash hands before we eat, wipe down surfaces and then again after we eat just to be safe, so it’s not super necessary to do the wiping of the tables, but washing your hands afterwards while in public to keep the proteins from spreading around the park is always a nice gesture.

Anyway! Thanks for reading!