Comments on: The old standby isn’t anymore

By: cpa mom

cpa mom — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:23:51 +0000

thank you for this. my own child is allergic to peanuts, tree nuts and cinnamon and there are a lot of parents who don’t get it, and frankly do not care. education is the key.

By: Mommywizdom

Mommywizdom — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 06:03:38 +0000

My son is seven months old and has “sensitivities” to milk, wheat, soy, and corn. I am breast feeding. You can imagine the things I can eat; hardly nothing. I pray that he will outgrow most of these and I won’t have to worry about it.
I’ve adjusted well enough to my diet. However, now that we’re trying to feed him solids, it’s difficult to find foods without all those things in them to give to him. I spend a lot of time trying to cook up different things and to discover new things for him to eat.
Believe it or not, I learned a lot about allergies through a TV show called Doctorology. It’s on Discovery Health, it stars Leslie Nielsen from the Naked Gun movies. It’s a slapstick educational program about various issues.
It may not be on TV anymore, but I’m sure you can buy it somewhere. Happy Holidays!

By: Builder Mama

Builder Mama — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:36:10 +0000

Well done, Julie.

It’s a challenge, no doubt. Then I look in Monkey Man’s class – out of 19 kids, three have peanut allergies – one is contact anaphylactic. I’m just thankful that MM isn’t that serious.

The funny thing is that until you know someone well who has a food allergy, you wonder what the big deal is. People just don’t understand how hard it is to find things for FA kids to eat. I always try to educate, educate, educate – because one wrong move could cost a child his life.

By: Cynthia Samuels

Cynthia Samuels — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:39:32 +0000

It really is amazing once you become conscious of it, isn’t it? I deal a lot with allergy bloggers in my work and what they go through is amazing — both allergy sufferers and parents of kids with allergies. Every play date is an act of faith! As a mom of grown kids though I think you’re wise to wonder about your newest arrival; there are so many more allergic kids than there were when my kids were growing up. There’s lots of interesting material related to environmental causes, too.

By: AB

AB — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:07:36 +0000

I have no allergies to food or medicine and neither does my husband or any of our kids. We’re lucky beyond our wildest imagination and I think we take that for granted.

By: Christina

Christina — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:12:27 +0000

Cordy has a weird allergy to cinnamon, and it looks like she’s recently developed a sensitivity to tomatoes. Two foods that are easily hidden in nearly everything. It’s frustrating.

Mira hasn’t shown any allergy signs yet, but then again Cordy’s didn’t develop until she was 18 months. I’m hoping she won’t have to deal with it.

By: carmen

carmen — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:00:03 +0000

Fabulous. Can I steal this for my own site, since I do have an anaphylactic kid?

By: Lela

Lela — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:42:38 +0000

I have one child with no allergies, which he proudly boasts even at six. One with an OJ allergy and one with a drug allergy. I have no idea what I did different. I have a few thoughts, but dont’ want my ass chewed out for them, lol.

By: mayberry

mayberry — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:06:24 +0000

I remember when that happened! I am amazed, actually, that our school still allows and even serves peanut butter.

It has to be so tough for you parents dealing with this issue. My brother had pretty severe environmental allergies and asthma as a kid and it was scary.

By: fidget

fidget — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:40:15 +0000

we have gluten issues here. Tessa seems to have it too but her school repeatedly violates her gluten free diet by not clearing things with me first. Unfortunatly I feel like I cant make too many waves considering her monthly tuition is only the cost of basic supplies and costs us half of what her old school did and they also kept accidentally feeding her gluten!

I was going to take to the task of educating them but quickly realized that she has her main teacher and then 20 or so student teachers who cycle through the room per hour. Logistically there is no way for me to “train” or educate them on this topic and actually make a substantial impact.

Thankfully they have removed obvious signs of gluten but still give me that RCA dog look when I ask if I can make playdoh for Tessa to play with since the commercial stuff is made with wheat. They have removed the obviously non gluten free snacks for the most part, though Tessa has her own cookies and pretzels for teh few days that they have goldfish or something.. but the less obvious like lunch meat with gluten additives are still fed to her.. I’m so glad that her issues doesnt cause acute and immediately deadly symptoms. I have a hard enough time as a parent coping with this, I could not imagine a severe peanut allergy or something