I see what Rebekah and Maeve are getting at here, too, though--
it's REALLY weird for the school to
require a non-prescription medication when a physician hasn't required one to be included in the action plan... and weirder STILL for them to then insist on labeling it with a prescription label when it's an OTC medication to begin with.
That's just
ODD.
Glad my point about management being about the long-term interests of the child wasn't misunderstood there. It's why we ALWAYS have DD carrying a cell phone, too. Does she "need" to do that? Well, no-- most of the time, she's with a responsible adult continuously, or at least has been until this past year.
But there is a part of it that is about training HER for the lifetime ahead of her.
I guess my instructions to DD would be fairly "don't ask-don't tell" w.r.t. benadryl in a high school setting. Then again, we don't HAVE any school nurses. So it truly would be a matter of all-or-nothing otherwise.
My point, though, I think is still valid-- and that is that it is really not appropriate for the school to be dictating allergy management to individual families and students like this.
If they DO NOT carry benadryl, then there hardly seems a good reason to START for the school's convenience.