re: They Say: More Children Have Allergies

BBBGMOM — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:46:32 GMT

MomofBeans - that's terrible! I wonder if people's ability to take food allergies seriously is partly generational. My grandma (almost 90 y.o.) thinks the notion that any of her descendants (aka great-grandchildren) cannot eat some of the foods put before them is "ridiculous." She plain doesn't believe in food allergies!! Thank goodness she doesn't cook anymore!

re: They Say: More Children Have Allergies

MomofBeans — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:30:56 GMT

My daughter has severe dairy, egg, soy, and peanut allergies. I have told this to everyone we know, but it still hasn't stopped some people from trying to give her things that will make her violently ill and that could possibly kill her (like my FIL trying to give her a peanut-butter and milk chocolate truffle). So sometimes screaming is called for, because it seems like a lot of people don't take this very seriously. They certainly didn't at her daycare...until someone left a milkshake out and she dumped it all over herself and soon after developed a terrible rash, runny nose, and sneezing (and that was just from skin contact).