Any parents of severe food allergic children?

**2ndGenGranola** · 10-25-2010, 07:46 AM

Originally Posted by imagine

. They would say things like "NO, he can eat the things I make." I would ask what they normally ate . They would answer. " Pizza, mac and cheese" things like that" They always seemed shocked when I would say they couldn't eat that stuff. some would even ask why?

I cannot tell you how many people think "dairy allergic" only applies to a glass of milk. Most look shocked when I say butter and cheese come from milk too. I have even encountered NURSES who write down "lactose intolerance" rather dairy allergy even after me going through the whole speech "I don't have an intolerance to the sugar, I have an allergy to the protein".

**imagine** · 10-25-2010, 08:18 AM

Originally Posted by 2ndGenGranola

That is interesting. I do that too along with one of my kids. Mine will kind of bubble up. The child has a nasty red place but not bubbly like mine. Any other brand is fine (even those with latex). I wonder what is in Band Aid brand that does that???

Latex are fine with him too just the Band aid brand bother him.

Every medical professional I talk to doesn't know they guess it is the adhesive in that brand.

The hospital makes a note that their tape might bother Buddy so they can keep an eye on him and so no one blows him off if he says that it itches or hurts.

**imagine** · 10-25-2010, 08:25 AM

Originally Posted by 2ndGenGranola

I cannot tell you how many people think "dairy allergic" only applies to a glass of milk. Most look shocked when I say butter and cheese come from milk too. I have even encountered NURSES who write down "lactose intolerance" rather dairy allergy even after me going through the whole speech "I don't have an intolerance to the sugar, I have an allergy to the protein".

I've had hospitals bring him milk just because the doc or nurse forgot to fill out the correct box of no milk.

Little Miss is intolerant to milk. Can't drink milk in any form and can only tolerate it in some forms and only in little bits.

What part she is intolerant to doesn't really matter doc says just that Little Miss can't tolerate it. Little Miss just informs everyone she will throw up if she drinks that. They back off fast.

**McD** · 10-25-2010, 10:13 AM

We are very lucky not to have any allergies within our unit, but my father-in-law is deathly allergic to nuts and shellfish, shrimp etc.

People either just don't get it or they just don't care since it doesn't affect them.

**Nishu** · 10-25-2010, 10:22 AM

Originally Posted by imagine

The most unusual one is Buddy can not use Band Aid brand bandages. We don't know why. They break him out in a very long lasting rash. Even hospitals roll their eyes at that one. We have taken to telling them the reaction. " he can't ....... because every time he gets a rash, just where it sticks not where the pad is. One time we left in on longer than a min. and it caused such a weepy rash that it scared worse the the stitches he received the same day"

My kid has the same thing, but I haven't tried other brands. Weird!

**YankeeMom** · 10-25-2010, 11:08 AM

Originally Posted by 2ndGenGranola

That is interesting. I do that too along with one of my kids. Mine will kind of bubble up. The child has a nasty red place but not bubbly like mine. Any other brand is fine (even those with latex). I wonder what is in Band Aid brand that does that???

I have the same reaction....I'm allergic to adhesives so the allergist says that's why I have that reaction. Maybe you are allergic to adhesives or just the adhesive Band-Aid uses.

**Inkstain82** · 10-25-2010, 11:33 AM

I'm violently allergic to all seafood. I've been lucky not to ever have any incidents, but I usually make my wife taste the "chicken" at any chinese place before I take a bite, just to make sure.

It's a very tough issue. On the one hand, obviously we have to protect the children who are already allergic. On the other, I think there's a lot of support behind the "hygiene hypothesis" that says that overly clean, allergen-free environments can also create more allergies in the long run.

**Rosebush3** · 10-25-2010, 01:05 PM

After reading all of these replies I am so thankful that neither of my children have any allergies. I knew it was a serious issue, it's just never been something I had to deal with. Growing up I don't recall any instances of the school disallowing any foods on the basis of a child having an allergy, things were a lot different then. Even with my DS15 the schools never mentioned anything, nothing until my DD9 and that was only last year. She was in 3rd grade and a child in K started school with a peanut allergy. We all got the memo, it did slip my mind one day when the 3rd grade was going on a field trip for the day and her sandwich was taken away. I had made her a pb&j for her picnic lunch. She didn't get eat that day, I was a bit angry because the kindergartener was many miles away. If it was an issue of 'well she could have gotten peanut oil on her hands at the picnic site and transferred it to the bus seats and so on... then that makes no sense. I'm sure kids have pb before school some mornings and have it on their hands. Anyway, I know now if I need I send anything with her it better not have pb in it. Or strawberries. Or anything with a red food dye in it because kids in other classes have allergies to those substances.