Nut Allergies - LSE Dorms

Anyone have experience having nut allergies and living in an LSE dorm. Any recommendations on which dorm is the best to live in or advice for my son who will be spend next year at LSE in the general course, he coming from a University in the US.

Accommodation in the UK, particularly in London, works a little different to the USA, meaning he’d have a choice between catered and self-catered accommodation. With all room types, for catered accommodation, it would be a matter of informing the catering team and they would likely carefully prepare his meals separately to avoid cross contamination. With self-catered accommodation, the simplicity of the matter would depend largely on the room types. For rooms with shared kitchen facilities, he would need to inform his flatmates that he has an allergy and hope that they are considerate about this and avoid cross contamination (which I’d hope most would). For studio accommodations, him having his own kitchen would mean that the responsibility is his solely, which would minimise risk the most (assuming he’s careful) but leave a bigger dent in the wallet. In London, it’s also common for people to opt for intercollegiate halls, meaning that he could be living anywhere in London, not necessarily close to LSE and with students from various London universities in various age groups. In any case, he should take the necessary precautions to ensure that he can minimise the risk of an allergic reaction occurring.

Anyone have experience having nut allergies and living in an LSE dorm. Any recommendations on which dorm is the best to live in or advice for my son who will be spend next year at LSE in the general course, he coming from a University in the US.

Some unis put those with nut allergies into the same flat so ask the accommodation team at LSE if that is possible.