This week has been a bit of a haze. We’ve been recovering from my allergy boy’s anaphylaxis last Sunday. Throw in an appointment with the allergist, plus a trip to the ER with my 6 year old daughter with a…
Allergy Boy 1, Walnuts 0
Everything is okay. Now that you know that, I’ll tell you that my 8 year old allergy boy had an anaphylactic reaction on Sunday. It was the worst and scariest allergic reaction we’ve ever seen. I Tweeted/Facebooked about it a…
Food Bans: Still a Bad Idea (Part 2)
Okay, we all know I hate food bans, right? So what are some good strategies for keeping allergic kids safe, you ask? Read on. First, a disclaimer: it’s not that food bans are never a good idea; it’s that they…
A Whole New World
As many of you know, my 7 year old has food allergies. We discovered his dairy and egg allergies when he was about 10 months old, when he was 18 months old he reacted to bananas, and we discovered his…