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Hi Everyone!

My 4 year old daughter was in an ice show this past weekend.  There were 
multiple shows.  I was nervous about her being alone in the locker room 
because of her Celiac condition.  I was allowed to work in the locker room 
some of the shows in order to help make sure she would be ok - even though I 
was assured that there would be no problem.  

One of the little boys that was there was a behavioral challenge.  He raided 
my daughter's cooler several times.  One time he had been eating gluten 
snacks and then stuck his hand into my daughter's snack bag in order to help 
himself to her snacks too.  She came to tell me about the issue - but was still 
eating the snack.  I immediately took the snack away from her and explained 
to her that she would likely get sick and that she cannot eat something after 
someone imposes themself onto her and contaminates her food (I used kid 
language of course).  

She suffered diaherra the day after and yesterday and woke up at 4am this 
morning vomitting.  After the vomitting, I know it was definitely a 
Celiac "attack".

After my daughter was done vomiting, I explained to her that she got sick 
because the little boy contaminated her snack.  

There will be other kids that "impose" themselves onto other kids and my 
daughter.  Is there anything else I can do to help my daughter understand 
how serious the issue of food contamination is?

My second question is, how do I get other parents to understand the 
seriousness of this?  When I explained the issue of Celiac up front to his 
mother (when she was also in the room to help watch the kids), she walked 
away from me while I was talking as if she didn't care about my issue.  This 
issue happened while she was "watching" him.  How do I get the 
proper "attention" from other parents in this situation?  Perhaps it is not 
possible because she doesn't give her son the proper attention he needs to 
behave and he seems to act out mostly to get attention - even if it is 
negative attention.  Most other parents were great at listening, asking 
questions and helping.  I know I'll cross this issue again - so I'd like to know 
how to better address.

Regards,
Laura    

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