At my school we have one student that is allergic to latex (severity unknown) the other day some of the students had balloons that they were going to use to decorate for spirit week after school. Mom was here with said student and pulled her child out of the building and all latex balloons were banned for the event, now I am being looked at to help make a decision whether or not to ban all balloons in the school while she is attending. (we are a small private school less than 300 students).
Has anyone come across this before? Per Mom the allergy is severe but we have no documentation other than its an allergy and I am awaiting a call back from her doctor to help us make an educated decision. We have had balloons in the building from time to time since the beginning of the year with no incidents.
Any and all comments, suggestions will be helpful I'm at a lose as what to do on this one. We have multiple peanut allergies but didn't ban peanut butter.
