Ladies! How do you manage food allergy?!

For parents of kids with food allergies, this week marks the start of allergy season.
The next three months are an onslaught of school parties, church festivals and trick-or-treating goodies, which means that parents have to navigate the choices to avoid a trip to the emergency room, or worse.
It also means that parents of kids without food allergies have to pay close attention to the notes coming home from school and day care to make sure they aren’t endangering someone else’s child when they send cookies and candy to school.
“The holiday season — Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas — is very difficult because risk of exposure goes up.” said Allen Lieberman, a food allergy specialist at the Allergy and Asthma Center of Austin. “A lot of it is candy-related - peanuts, milk, eggs. There is just more of it around, and it is tempting for kids.”
Both my girls have classmates at day care who have food allergies, and while the school is already peanut-free, this is the first time the note home for the holiday party has included other items on the forbidden list.
“No candy with eggs, please.”
Honestly, I didn’t know that candy had eggs. As it turns out, candy corn does contain egg whites. And for kids with gluten-allergies, a surprising number of candies contain wheat.
On some of the parenting boards I visit I see a surprising amount of resistance from some parents to the allergy guidelines at schools. While I personally don’t understand the reason for the skyrocketing prevalence of food allergies, I certainly don’t want to be responsible for another child’s life threatening reaction to something I’ve sent to school.
The excuse “we didn’t have allergies when I was in school” falls flat when a kid has to be treated for anaphylactic shock.
It would be cheaper for me to make cookies, but I will send pre-packaged treats so that the teachers and other parents don’t have play traffic cop with my desserts.

avoid whatever it is that you are allergic to.

personal experience

I stay as far away from that food as possible, haha :D

But I'm only allergic to honey, so it's not too hard.