<p>Hey fellow CCers,</p>
<p>I'm very excited at the prospect of going to UCLA next year, but I have a slight hang-up that is keeping me from submitting my SIR just yet:</p>
<p>Food Allergies.</p>
<p>Specifically, bad peanut allergies that make living with PB&J difficult. With the majority of rooms being triples (I think?) it seems like avoiding exposure would be tough (As long as I don't eat them I'm fine, but it's stressful nonetheless).</p>
<p>So my questions are these:
1) Current Students: How have you dealt with food allergies/other people with them?
2) Incoming Students: Who out there on CC will be attending with similar allergies (Maybe we can form a gang? At least, I'm looking for a roommate(s)), and what are your plans?</p>
<p>Anyhow, thanks in advance for your input, go Bruins!</p>
<p>Try getting in contact with the housing office directly (don’t just rely on listing peanut allergies on your housing form). I do not have allergies, but even people with asthma have contacted housing and even OSD (office for students with disabilities) in order to get their needs met. Obviously neither asthma or allergies is a disability, but it is a special condition and needs special treatment, so seek it out! Maybe it’ll increase your chance at a double.</p>
<p>do you get an allergic reaction only if you eat it or as long as you come in contact with it?</p>
<p>just let your roommates/friends know so they know to keep peanut stuff away from you. and have an epi pen on standby, which im sure you do. the UCLA dining menu website lists the ingredients of all the dishes, so you can glance at those before heading down to dinner or whatever to see if they use peanut in a dish you want to eat.</p>
<p>Yeah, as long as I don’t eat it I’m fine, but having it around is problematic, especially in confined spaces since it’s so easy to contaminate other things.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice so far, it’s been very useful.</p>