Peanut Free Zone at Padres Baseball Park

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I loved going to Atlanta Braves games when I was a kid, and I remember singing ‘buy me some peanuts and cracker jacks’ at every game. I've never thought of a baseball park as a dangerous place, but it can be for children with a peanut allergy.

For one game on June 10, the San Diego Padres agreed to have an experimental Peanut Free Zone in the stands as a safe place for children with peanut allergy, reports SignOnSanDiego. The Minnesota Twins tried the same thing last year, and now they have a peanut free zone for one game each month.

The Alliance for Nut-Allergic Children, a San Diego parents group, requested the Peanut Free Zone at the Padres game. Not only were nuts off limits in that section, but they also had an EMT there.

Eight-year-old Chirstopher Cheung was in attendance at the game. Last summer, Chirstopher had a severe asthma attack because of peanut shells at a baseball game, and the reaction lasted for more than a week.

‘To be able to go to this game, to feel normal, is incredible for them,’ Christopher's mother Dr. Sherry Huang said about the children in the peanut free zone

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