So DS has started school this year.
Day care always provided us with the action plans they wanted filled out and off we went.
This is our first experience with school. DS has both allergies and intolerances. We don't know what all the allergies will react like as he has never had real life exposure to some of them. The issue however is that our GP is not very up to date on dealing with allergies in the school system (and I admit neither are we really). We went to the GP for an action plan and he couldnt give me one there and then, so we waited for one for be done all the while DS is in the school system. Thankfully the school is nut free, unfortunately we have already had hiccups where they listed him as peanuts and not tree nuts (they're not the same!!!).
One of the issues is that the GP wants to do the action plan as a letter, which isn't good enough as the school has an action plan from ASCIA that they look for and have trained their staff to look for. So I handed that to the GP to complete and they lost it!
The other issue now is that DS also has intolerances which are just as important to avoid as the allergens. But how do we get an action plan for the intolerance? Can it just be placed on the allergy plan as a no go also? Has anyone had to deal with this?
The GP also doesn't seem to understand that they need it to be this form as any other variation thereof won't be immediately recognised by the staff at the school and this is how accidents happen. (We had an incident at day care that happened in a similar manner).
I'm just getting more and more frustrated and in a way wish that DS had something that was widely recognisable such as coeliacs as at least then it is understood by the GP and school more.
HELP. Any advice for a new school allergy mummy fumbling in the school system would be wonderful.