Woman offered job gets denied due to peanut allergy

I don't think that allergies are part of disabilities.
 
Maybe it's patients that have peanuts in their mouth and vomit or breath at her. They're afraid to continues have accident more often per year.
 
I have a nephew who is deathly allergic to peanuts, and he doesn't even have to eat them to go into anaphylaxis. That level of allergy is indeed covered under the ADA as a disability and requires accomodations.
 
Eater of Worlds said:
I have a nephew who is deathly allergic to peanuts, and he doesn't even have to eat them to go into anaphylaxis. That level of allergy is indeed covered under the ADA as a disability and requires accomodations.
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"Kameela Coleman said she was scheduled to start her job working as scheduling coordinator at a dental outpatient clinic at Boston Children's Hospital this week. However, before she started the job, she disclosed that she had a peanut allergy, which could result in throat swelling and hives."
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It would had been hard to made accommodations when working with kids , you can't tell parents not give their kid a peanut butter sandwich before coming in for dental appointment. I guess she could had been give a job calling patients to confirm their appointments .
 
Hmm but if her job was to be as a scheduling coordinator just how much contact or interaction would she have with patients? Kind of not sure what kind of scheduling she would have been doing-- employees' or at the front desk making appointments.

If it's the second I can kind of see that depending on her level of peanut allergy and the number of kids who might come in with "peanut breath" then there's a potential risk.
 
DeafDucky said:
Hmm but if her job was to be as a scheduling coordinator just how much contact or interaction would she have with patients? Kind of not sure what kind of scheduling she would have been doing-- employees' or at the front desk making appointments.

If it's the second I can kind of see that depending on her level of peanut allergy and the number of kids who might come in with "peanut breath" then there's a potential risk.
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What is the Job Description of a Scheduling Coordinator?

According to this web site it depend on the job and in medical field you can have contact with the patients . She could come in contact with "peanut breath" while standing a checkout line , this has to really tough be so deadly allergic to a food and trying to find a job.
 
This is tough...my husband used to work with someone who literally couldn't be in the same room with peanut butter, he didn't even have to touch it. He couldn't enter Chinese restaurants at all.

I have been tested as "allergic to peanuts" but can make peanut butter sandwiches or handle energy bars with peanuts in them, for example. I stopped eating peanut butter some years ago and switched to almond butter though because allergy and anaphalactic reactions does run in my family and I've had mysterious hives and other sudden reactions to things which I have no idea what I was exposed to. One time I had some strange facial/lip swelling after I'd been outside...I remember feeling a sudden prick on my face but thought nothing of it and happened to go in the house. Within a minute my lip felt funny and it was swelling and also my chin in that area...I took 2 Benedryl and went to Urgent Care.
Why I try to have Benedryl with me all the time.
 
dogmom said:
This is tough...my husband used to work with someone who literally couldn't be in the same room with peanut butter, he didn't even have to touch it. He couldn't enter Chinese restaurants at all.

I have been tested as "allergic to peanuts" but can make peanut butter sandwiches or handle energy bars with peanuts in them, for example. I stopped eating peanut butter some years ago and switched to almond butter though because allergy and anaphalactic reactions does run in my family and I've had mysterious hives and other sudden reactions to things which I have no idea what I was exposed to. One time I had some strange facial/lip swelling after I'd been outside...I remember feeling a sudden prick on my face but thought nothing of it and happened to go in the house. Within a minute my lip felt funny and it was swelling and also my chin in that area...I took 2 Benedryl and went to Urgent Care.
Why I try to have Benedryl with me all the time.
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I once when a store called Body Shop in Berkeley , Ca. and brought some perfume , I put a small drop on my neck hen I got out of the store and
immediately I got could breath. It felt like my throat was closing up on me. That was the first and last time I used perfume. I found out the fragrance
I brought was taken off the market.
 
I haven't been to The Body Shop on a long time. That was scary, I bet! Glad it was taken off the market!
we used to have one of those here.
I hate how they have those people with the perfume samples by the entrances of many department store, I always try avoid that area altogether, or move fast through and go wide around. I remember they used to spray people outright and now they ask if you want a sample. I always say NO
 
dogmom said:
I haven't been to The Body Shop on a long time. That was scary, I bet! Glad it was taken off the market!
we used to have one of those here.
I hate how they have those people with the perfume samples by the entrances of many department store, I always try avoid that area altogether, or move fast through and go wide around. I remember they used to spray people outright and now they ask if you want a sample. I always say NO
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Looking for truly fragrance free products can really slow things down. But so many times I have seen "Unscented" on the front label in large letters. Then when turning it over for the ingredient list, which always seems to be in very small letters, finding "masking fragrance" listed. I was at one time caught by this in a antiperspirant deodorant and have watched it closely. I do not break out but it stuffs up my nose.
 
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